Overview
Perhaps more than any other experience, conflict in schools and workplaces can zap our energy and steal our vigor as teachers. If we knew ways to minimize conflict and maximize vitality, would we use them? Teaching with Vitality offers specific behaviors and attitudes to reframe conflict by diluting and dissolving it.Organized into brief topics for busy readers, Teaching with Vitality combines common experiences and practical options for lessening the turmoil that is inevitable in schools. As beneficent stewards of our children, educators are priceless contributors to the quality of our lives.The main goal of Teaching with Vitality is to elevate teachers in their day-to-day lives by deconstructing the major and minor conflicts that sap their peace and dampen their power. School wellness is contagious. And, this book aims to offer daily pathways to health, wellness, and vigor.
Full Product Details
Author: Peggy D. Bennett (Professor Emerita of Music Education, Professor Emerita of Music Education, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 13.50cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780190673987
ISBN 10: 0190673982
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 28 December 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Peggy Bennett offers advice and insight to navigate the challenges of teaching and nourish the spirit. Teaching with Vitality provides beginning teachers, as well as seasoned educators, wisdom and solutions in a way that creates positive momentum which fuels the soul while providing motivation to continue in a challenging profession. Readers will appreciate the significance of the teaching profession and be reminded why we became educators through the positive uplifting series of topics containing thought provoking ideas and reminders. -Jayne Ellspermann - NASSP National Principal of the Year (2015) How we teach is sometimes more important that what we teach as we strive to ensure student success in the classroom. Peggy Bennett, veteran Texas music educator and former TMEA Executive Board member, has provided us a collection of health and wellness gems that serve as practical and inspirational guides to assist the teacher every day in the classroom. This book should be required reading and serve as a resource for survival for every first-year or veteran teacher. -Bob Floyd How can educators maintain and create Vitality in the challenging and complex educational environment of today? Peggy Bennett's Vitality is a must read. Vitality promotes the need for educators to build leadership resilience and competence and to continue to be passionate advocates for their students. Vitality provides practical internal resources to stay the course, grow, revive and thrive! -Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan, The BestSchool's National Principal of the Year, Escalante- Gradillas Prize for Best in Education Clearly, the lifelong enthusiasm, focus and gifted insights are provided by Peggy Bennett within the pages of Vitality. For a teacher of any vintage, practical aphorisms abound. When combined with the innate personality of an educator called to the profession, the wisdom contained in these pages will flow to the student, and increased competency and joy of learning will result. A rare accomplishment, and gift to the profession. -Stuart Brown MD Founder and President, The National Institute for Play Vitality is a book of hope and inspiration. Especially for new teachers or teachers who have lost their way. -Dr. Richard L. Curwin, Co-author of Discipline with Dignity
Clearly, the lifelong enthusiasm, focus and gifted insights are provided by Peggy Bennett within the pages of Vitality. For a teacher of any vintage, practical aphorisms abound. When combined with the innate personality of an educator called to the profession, the wisdom contained in these pages will flow to the student, and increased competency and joy of learning will result. A rare accomplishment, and gift to the profession. * Stuart Brown MD Founder and President, The National Institute for Play * How can educators maintain and create Vitality in the challenging and complex educational environment of today? Peggy Bennett's Vitality is a must read. Vitality promotes the need for educators to build leadership resilience and competence and to continue to be passionate advocates for their students. Vitality provides practical internal resources to stay the course, grow, revive and thrive! * Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan, The BestSchool's National Principal of the Year, Escalante- Gradillas Prize for Best in Education * How we teach is sometimes more important that what we teach as we strive to ensure student success in the classroom. Peggy Bennett, veteran Texas music educator and former TMEA Executive Board member, has provided us a collection of health and wellness gems that serve as practical and inspirational guides to assist the teacher every day in the classroom. This book should be required reading and serve as a resource for survival for every first-year or veteran teacher. * Bob Floyd * Peggy Bennett offers advice and insight to navigate the challenges of teaching and nourish the spirit. Teaching with Vitality provides beginning teachers, as well as seasoned educators, wisdom and solutions in a way that creates positive momentum which fuels the soul while providing motivation to continue in a challenging profession. Readers will appreciate the significance of the teaching profession and be reminded why we became educators through the positive uplifting series of topics containing thought provoking ideas and reminders. * Jayne Ellspermann, NASSP National Principal of the Year (2015) *
Author Information
Professor Emerita of Music Education at Oberlin Conservatory, Peggy D. Bennett has spent over 40 years studying the processes of learning and living. Certifications in teaching, mediation, and life-coaching further stimulated interest in how we can, day-by-day, make choices that contribute to wellness for educators, students, parents, administrators, and staff. Author and co-author of 6 books and over 50 pedagogical and research articles, Dr. Bennett has presented her unique brand of teacher education in nearly every state and four continents.
