Publisher's Synopsis
Teaching Toward Solutions offers a new mindset for teachers to consider that will make classroom management and student engagement rewarding. With today's students being more challenging due to the past few years, teachers need a new focus to help them deal with a classroom dilemmas and situations that occur each day. From students with poor home lives, to emotionally unreachable, unmotivated or misbehaving students, this book will take you where other education books fall short...into a solution focused mindset. The ideas of "doing less so students do more," and "if this strategy doesn't work, do something different" is reiterated throughout the book and gives questions to ask and strategies that work.
Written by an award winning and best selling author in education, this book will transform your classroom and school. Need SEL, lessons for growth mindset and grit? It's all here in day to day interactions! These important initiatives are taught best when modeled by teachers and staff. By believing in students and asking THEM to construct their own solutions with your assistance, they are much more likely to a) believe in themselves, b) be less resistant and c) try out their own strategy. Hard to believe? Just read it!
