Personal Qualities of a Language Arts Teacher
Subtitle: Traits and Perspectives, Daily Inspiration from Outstanding Educators
By: Lenore Sandel
Contributors: Family Learning Association, Bloomington, IN; ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
Publisher: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780971987494
Subjects: Classroom Environment; Elementary Secondary Education; Language Arts; Reflective Teaching; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Response; Teacher Role
Description: In this book 100 dynamic educators share some words that are important to them and what those words mean for teaching--here are the ideas that can start a teacher's day or stimulate new ideas for class activities. According to the book, each educator was asked to select a term that reflected an important idea for teaching; the terms appear in alphabetical order so it is easy to locate them. A recurring theme in the book is the need for teachers to see their personal strengths and skills as important contributions to their teaching. The following terms are addressed in the book: Adaptive; Age-Appropriate; Balance; Balanced Perspective; The Basics; Bonding; Caring; Collaboration; Community; Compassion; Cooperation; Crystallizing; Culturally Responsive Pedagogy; Curiosity; To Discover; Discussion; Ebullience; Emergent; Empathy; Encouraging; Energy; Engage; Enthusiasm; Ethical; Facilitator; Family Literacy; Flexibility; Formative Assessment; Friendship; A Good Teacher; Guide; Heart; Hidden; Honesty; Hope; Imagination; Imitative; Immersion; Incendiary; Inquiry; Inspiring; Integrity; Juggler; Kidwatching; Kindness; Laughter; Learner; Listener; Love; Metamorphosis; Motivation; Musing; "Obuchenie" (Russian); Open; Openness; Optimistic; Option; Partner; Passion; Performer; Perseverance; Perseverance and Reflection; Reflection; Respect; Rhetoric; Scholar Ethos; Self-Expression and Imagination; Self-Knowledge; Self-Renewal; Sensibility; Sensitivity; Spiritual Pedagogy; Struggle; Subversion; Support; Teach; Theory; Total Involvement and Total Commitment; Trust; Turbulence; Versatility; Vision; Visionary; Worldliness; and Yes and Solitude. (NKA).
Notes: Availability: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication, 2805 E. 10th St. #140, Bloomington, IN 47408-2698 ($12.95). Web site: http://eric.indiana.edu. Family Learning Association, 3925 Hagan St., #101, Bloomington, IN 47401. Tel: 800-759-4723 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.kidscanlearn.com.

Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.

Contract Number: ED-99-CO-0028.

Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse. microfiches : positive.

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