The Well-Balanced Teacher
How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out
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Mike Anderson
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You've probably heard the advice put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms. You have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If teachers are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive energy, and enthusiasm to provide the best instruction for students? Author Mike Anderson asked that question as a teacher himself, and the answers he found form the basis of The Well-Balanced Teacher. He found that teachers need to take care of themselves in five key areas to keep themselves in shape to care for their students.
In addition to paying proper attention to their basic needs for nutrition, hydration, sleep, exercise, and emotional and spiritual refreshment, teachers also need.
Belonging: Teachers need to feel positive connections with other people, both in school and outside school.
Significance: Teachers want to know that they make a positive difference through the work they do.
Positive engagement: When teachers enjoy their work, they have great energy and passion for their teaching.
Balance: Healthy teachers set boundaries and create routines so that they can have rich lives both in the classroom and at home.
Anderson devotes a chapter to each of these needs, describing in frank detail his own struggles and offering a multitude of practical tips to help readers find solutions that will work for them. When teachers find ways to take care of their own needs, they will be healthier and happier, and they will have the positive energy and stamina needed to help their students learn and grow into healthy adults.
The book is published by ASCD
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Change comes most readily when you understand what's standing between you and success and tailor your solution to that roadblock. If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won't help. But what if, instead, you transformed your workouts so they became a source of pleasure instead of a chore? Turning an uphill battle into a downhill one is the key to success.
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Finally, actionable steps
- By lisa on 05-05-21
By: Katy Milkman, and others
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Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers
- Effective Classroom Management for Social, Emotional, and Academic Success
- By: Jane Nelsen, Kelly Gfroerer
- Narrated by: Virginia Wolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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The positive discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem-solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn. Each tool is tailored specifically for the modern teacher, with examples and solutions to each and every roadblock that stands in the way of cooperative and student-centered learning.
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Good ideas but misleading
- By J. Frazier on 03-29-18
By: Jane Nelsen, and others
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The ADHD Advantage
- What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength
- By: Dale Archer MD
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Sharing the stories of highly successful people with ADHD, Dr. Archer offers a vitally important and inspiring new way to recognize ADHD traits in oneself or in one's loved ones, and then leverage them to great advantage - without drugs. As someone who not only has ADHD himself but also has never used medication to treat it, Dr. Archer understands the condition from a unique standpoint.
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This guy doesn't understand ADHD – at all
- By Oliver Nielsen on 02-25-16
By: Dale Archer MD
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
- By: Daniel H. Pink
- Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science.
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Fun. Enlightening. Fast Paced.
- By Wiley Brooks on 01-11-18
By: Daniel H. Pink
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Smart Change
- Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others
- By: Art Markman
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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An insightful guide that shows how habits of behavior are formed, and how we can transform bad habits into positive behaviors in ourselves and others. Smart Change explores the psychological mechanisms that form and maintain habits in individuals and groups and offers real, accessible and actionable advice for changing habits. In an engaging narrative, Markman covers a wide range of habits, from individual behaviors like eating better and exercising regularly to work-related behaviors such as learning effectively and influencing customers’ purchases.
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Even Smarter Than I Thought!!!
- By Rand on 05-30-14
By: Art Markman
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The Me, Me, Me Epidemic
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Capable, Grateful Kids in an Over-Entitled World
- By: Amy McCready
- Narrated by: Margaret Strom
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks, there are preschoolers who only behave in the grocery store for a treat, narcissistic teenagers posting selfies across all forms of social media, and adult children living off their parents. Parenting expert Amy McCready reveals in this book that the solution is to help kids develop healthy attitudes in life.
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Longer than it needs to be, condescending narration, but did have some good tidbits
- By Areeeee on 09-27-19
By: Amy McCready
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- Gr James
- 05-27-15
I loved this book! I NEEDED this book!
This was an excellent, quick read! It approached the self-care of teachers with a very positive outlook!
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- christy
- 04-20-13
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Great book for teachers...I listened to it during my hour commute to school. Every day after listening, I walked into my classroom with such a great attitude. Thanks! I'll be listening to this book again!
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- susan
- 08-13-14
Good advice but dry
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The author has good advice but the reader is dry and difficult to listen to for long periods of time. This is a book you listen to in between other books for short periods.
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- shooting star
- 06-30-15
Regain your confidence in your teaching ability
I especially related to chapter 5 which talked about the confidence or lack thereof of teachers in their own abilities. This was an excellent book for teachers to read and gain more confidence in their training and learn to take care of themselves so they are in condition to be most effective with their students.
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- TTR
- 10-21-18
A Must Have Book for TEACHERS
This book is heaven sent. Thank you for writing this book. It has everything I have felt in my gut that I needed to do but for some reason I felt I needed someone to give me permission to do it. Thank you for sharing your experiences as a teacher and that of other teachers. The simple thing of taking care of ourselves as teachers is the most difficult. Thank you for empowering me and providing wonderful ideas to balance my life. Your book is a life changer. Thank you!
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- Taylor
- 09-13-16
Highly recommend for all teachers!
I enjoyed reading this book at the beginning of my 6th school year. It reminded me of things I already try to do to keep my life balanced between work and home, and suggested other new things to try. It's only 4 hours long, so it's easy to listen through the whole thing in a few commutes to and from work. Fellow Teacher friends, check it out!
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- Kalendy
- 01-30-20
A excellent read for homeschooling
I have two grade school homeschoolers who are different ages (and a toddler and a baby). There are days that are just too much. While I don’t have administration breathing down my back—I do have to keep track of important paperwork for my kids.
There are days that I cannot even think well, get frazzled, and of course have to deal with different moods and tantrums throughout the day. This book was a great reminder to take care of yourself first then do what is important.
While my experience is not like those in the book—I am still a teacher regardless and still struggle with “trying to do it all” (household management, child rearing, cooking, Doctor appointments, etc).
This is read that I would listen again and again.
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- Lisa
- 04-08-16
frustrtion.
I was looking for encouragement, but found frustraion instead. I did not finish the book, only the first two chapters. I found the ways the topics were covered to be depressing.
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