Full Description
The Solution Focused Educator is intended for classroom teachers and school based administrators at all levels. The content serves as a roadmap for how educators can reframe their mindset to tackle the current challenges in schools. Examples are given throughout the book to demonstrate how you can reduce stress by learning new mental strategies that shift problem solving away from needing others to change.
The goal is for teachers and school leaders to better understand how to reshape their preconditioned responses to challenges by closing the gap that exists between the experiences they have on the job and their reactive nature to them. The book captures a unique twist under the topic of motivation and how to reframe one's attitude towards the typical discomforts faced by today's educator. The writing aims to establish a deeper understanding about the intimate relationship between problem identification and the anxiety that ensues within this psychological dyad. Utilizing the shape of a triangle, the author consistently makes the mindset concepts easy to understand. He utilizes this shape as a strong representational pattern that clearly illustrates how educators can, mentally, diagram problematic issues, outline their emotional reactions to them, and create a new attitude of solvability.
Contents
Foreword
Todd Whitaker
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: Understanding Your Current Mindset Before Generating Solutions
The Me-Self Assessment
Chapter 1: School Mindset: The Brain and The Triangle
Chapter 2: Professional Happiness-Anticipation is the Key
Chapter 3: Emotional Pressurization and Your School Mindset
Chapter 4: Adopting a Different View for School Before September
Chapter 5: Achieving that Balance in Schools--Listen to Your Self-Talk
Section II. Action Steps for Tackling the Compressed Mindset
Chapter 6: Reset Your Bar of Contentment at the Beginning of School
Chapter 7: Winning with Whys: Getting to tnhe Root of Your School Stress
Chapter 8: Focusing vs. Fixating in Schools
Chapter 9: Remove Your School Sandbags and Become Your Own Innovator
Section III: Real World Application for the Solution Focused Educator
Chapter 10: Meetings at School
Chapter 11: Grading and Reporting
Chapter 12: School Climate and Personalized Professional Development
Chapter 13: Strategies for Conflict Resolution Teacher-Teacher-Principal
Section IV: Personal Growth for The Solution Focused Educator
Chapter 14: Social Networking, Learned Shifting: Millennials and Beyond
Chapter 15: Is Teaching the Profession for You?
Chapter 16: Resiliency: Don't Let You Beat You and the Roles We Play at School
Chapter 17: Backwards Design and Winning Differently
Appendix A: Playbook of Professional Development Exercises for School Staff
Bibliography
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