Taylor & Francis Ltd Teachers Year: A Weekly Guide to the Heart of the Craft

In The Teacher’s Year, Sarah Miller offers an honest and funny month-by-month guide to the rhythms of the school year. It contains practical strategies you can use tomorrow in the classroom as well as profound reflections on what it means to be an educator, and how we can best care for ourselves and the students who are counting on us. In The Teacher’s Year, veteran teacher Sarah Miller offers an honest and funny month-by-month guide to the rhythms of the school year. It contains practical strategies you can use tomorrow in the classroom as well as profound reflections on what it means to be an educator, and how we can best care for ourselves and the students who are counting on us. The Teacher’s Year is an invitation to community and to truth-seeking in our schools and professional practice. With weekly essays, monthly reflection questions, extensive appendices tackling issues like “The Sunday Scaries,” journal prompts, email templates, and ideas for when you’re bored and completely out of ideas, this is a guide to the heart of the craft.Whether you’re brand new or have been teaching for forty years, whether you teach Pre-k or Advanced Chemistry, we all need the support of other educators. Reading The Teacher’s Year is like having coffee with a wise and funny friend who can help you with your lesson plan tomorrow and also remind you that you don’t have to be a perfect teacher to be the perfect teacher for your students. Autorid: Sarah Miller