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Gold medal winner in Education Commentary/Theory category of the 2014 Independent Publisher Awards.
In response to educators who are already fans of her best seller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams, the originator of Question Thinking, presents a compelling model for creating a classroom environment infused with curiosity, creativity, and caring.
Through a moving story of a teacher on the verge of burnout, Adams demonstrates the powerful influence our mind-sets have on how we interact with our students, our colleagues, and ourselves.
Through vivid examples, she illustrates how cultivating what she calls a learner mind-set leads to breakthroughs in critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Complete with Adams’s choice map for identifying our own mind-sets, a work plan, and access to online resources, this inspiring audiobook will transform teachers and students alike into open-minded, creative, resilient problem solvers and lifelong learners.
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Customers find the book insightful and useful for educators. It explores the relationship between mindset and learning, stating that dynamic teaching starts with one’s own mindset. Readers describe it as an inspiring read and a must-read for teachers.
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lovewalk –
A MUST READ for every teacher on the planet!
A veteran teacher of forty-three years, in earnest pursuit of the path of excellence I have read volumes of educational literature.Regrettably, most lies on a shelf and gathers dust. Teaching That Changes Lives is the book I have been waiting for all these years! Simply put, it is a “how to” book for communicating positively with even the most difficult students. It’s about “how to” create caring relationships with our students. It’s for every teacher on the planet who sees beyond the curriculum, every teacher who wants to be that special teacher in the hearts of every student–especially the most challenging, the ones who continually “disrupt the learning environment.” Don’t miss the opportunity to change the way you connect with not only your students but with every person in your life!Want to be known as a GREAT teacher? Then read this book! I intend to apply it faithfully until that last bell rings…
Renee Brouillette –
Thinking that changes lives!
I liked this book in that it is an easy read and explores how as educators we often concern ourselves w doing and so we need to shift our thinking and our focus on how to engage children in learning! There is an invitation to the reader to take a pause and reflect on their own thinking around the work, the relationships and the dynamics of the learning environment. What has the most impact? It is authentic in that everyone can easily relate to a variety of situations in the story. It unfolds like an adventure of life and learning. Inspiring read!
David Richards –
Four Stars
I enjoyed the book.
Rosa Abdelnour –
Just amazing!
I am a lawyer and a mediator and I found this book very useful in my dialiy work. But I am a law teacher too over 30 years and this book has teached me that be a good teacher it is not just a matter of know the issues about your particular discipline. You must know about how make that your students want to learn to learn.The new choice map it is something to have press and near you to see every day and remember and practice how to be a learner not a judger!!Rosa Abdelnour
P. Brooks –
Dynamic teaching starts with your own mindset
I really enjoyed the focus on understanding our mindset and the relationship to learning. I read her prior book and appreciated the updated Choice Map plus the 12 tools to help the reader develop a love for learning. I hope her book becomes required reading for those in the teaching and adult education profession because the concepts when applied will help teachers in all areas to create a dynamic environment for learning by focusing on their own mindset before teaching others.
Larry B –
Want to be a more effective human being? Not just for. teachers
If you are or have ever been a student, this book will provide insight on why your great teachers were great. If you are a teacher, this book will inspire you and give you a tool to be great, i.e. to be the teacher you dreamed of being. If you are a human being, this book will point you to a path that will enrich your life and increase your effectiveness.
Judith E. Waters –
Effective Solution Based Thinking and Action
This book offers a wonderful roadmap for how to deal proactively rather than reactively with negative occurances, issues, mindsets. Instead of seeing things with a critical mindset and tendency to blame others, you learn to use a ‘learner’ solution based mindset. This is a wonderful tool for teachers, parents and students. If everyone incorporated these practices the world would be a much better place!
suzannerus –
I would give it a 10 if there were that many avaliable
I now have every one I know reading this bookIt is a wonderful example of the power of change and how the mind worksThere are so many examples of the people we interact with on a daily basis.Then tools to use to change.Great fun as well
Subliminal –
I picked up this book expecting an explanation of twelve tools and their application in classroom contexts. I was quite surprised to find out that the larger part of this book is a narrative about a single school and a few students to illustrate the authors Choice Map. Having read the story readers are given the twelve tools which are illustrated in the story of the book. Being familiar with Dweck’s (1999) work on self-theories, which is briefly referenced in the book, I was interested to see how the author had operationalized the two mindsets of incremental and fixed views. To me, it seems that the author has drawn on Dweck’s ideas and fused them with a few questions reminiscent of cognitive behavior therapy, renaming the mindsets as learner and judger. Whilst perhaps over-simplistic dichotomies, the learner and judger mindsets are likely to be of use to school teachers when introducing children to ways that they might manage their own mindsets in order to reach their optimal learning potential.
georgec –
As a professional trainer I am always looking for new ways to engage learners of all ages and regardless of their status, self perceived or earned. This book extols the virtues of what the author calls a Choice Map and for me it has refreshed my thinking when faced with a new group or even an individual. It made me think about the number of times I’ve been guilty of making an initial judgement about someone or even a group.By following the thinking behind the Choice Map it results in a change of mindset from what the author calls Judger to Learner and calls upon a skill to ask the suitable questions to enable a switch from Judger to Leaner with potential to engage resistant learners. It could give any teacher or trainer the opportunity to question one self about the atmosphere, or as the author calls it “the weather” in the room.The book includes a summary of the Mindset Tools which should be helpful to any of us involved in people’s learning.