The Mindful Teacher

This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created Mindful Teacher seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new sections on the promise of teacher leadership, the strengths and perils of technology, and schools in the midst of change. The Mindful Teacher is an indispensable and timely resource for all educators who seek to transform schools into places of learning and joy. Book Features: Nitty-gritty descriptions of teachers leading grassroots change. Practical recommendations on ways to retain the best of previous practices while creatively blending them with new innovations. Valuable ways of using principles of mindful teaching for thinking through the affordances, as well as the distractions, that accompany new technologies. Research-tested approaches to whole-school change that honor the work of educators and accelerate the learning of students. The Mindful Teacher describes real educators in real schools working with real students. It bridges the rapidly evolving field of mindfulness studies with educators life-long quests for substantial and sustainable improvements in the educations we provide our students.