The Truth About Teaching: What I Wish the Veterans Had Told Me Revised and Expanded - Hardcover

Armstrong, Coleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470500727 ISBN 13: 9780470500729

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2009

Synopsis

A beautiful gift book that offers encouragement, comfort, and inspiration for new (and veteran) teachers

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of the joys and challenges of the teaching life. Author and veteran educator Coleen Armstrong is a wise, witty, and caring mentor. Her words of encouragement will resonate with new teachers, with students in teacher education schools, and with veteran teachers who wish to remember that they are not alone in an often lonely profession. From lesson plans to large classes; salaries to student engagement; germs to geometry–learning (or remembering) to love both the highs and lows of the profession has never been easier, or more fun.

• Contains a wealth of wise, humorous, and practical advice for all teachers
• Includes over 150 tips, suggestions, and ideas
• Co–published with Inspiring Teachers, a teacher–created organization

About this title

About the Author

Coleen Armstrong is a thirtyyear teaching veteran who has received many awards for her work as an inspiring educator, including being named one of five finalists to the Teachers Hall of Fame. Coleen is a sought–after educational advice columnist, and recently wrote columns for Education Week′s "Ask the Mentor" series in Teacher Magazine. Coleen also hosted a local television talk show on educational and community topics for ten years.

From the Back Cover

What I Wish the Veterans Had Told Me

The Truth About Teaching

Coleen Armstrong

Praise for The Truth About Teaching

"I wish I could′ve gotten my hands on this book when I was a beginning teacher. I saw my own classrooms over the years, and I saw future classrooms, too."

Cindi Rigsbee, 2008 2009 North Carolina Teacher of the Year and National Teacher of the Year Finalist

"This book describes the tough realities of what teachers do, but also the myriad rewards and benefits too. New and old teachers need something like this to help them rejuvenate. I think this book should be in every teacher induction program across the continent, and in every school of education."
Lois M. Adams, principal, L.M. Montgomery Elementary School, Prince Edward Island

From the Inside Flap

The Truth About Teaching

Coleen Armstrong′s The Truth About Teaching is the perfect gift for every teacher. Filled with over 150 inspirational tips, this book is a wonderful celebration of the joys and challenges of being in a classroom. With her characteristically witty, wise, and caring manner, Armstrong offers realistic words of encouragement in a thoroughly upbeat, often laugh–out–loud funny assessment of teaching that′s simultaneously honest about the realities of this noble profession.

This wonderful collection will resonate with teachers who are new to the profession as well as with seasoned veterans who will recognize their own experiences within these pages.

Published in Partnership with Inspiring Teachers. Inspiring Teachers is an organization dedicated to empowering and guiding new and veteran teachers, administrators, and mentors. For over ten years, Inspiring Teachers has helped educators worldwide through a comprehensive website, a collection of books, and staff development offerings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470500727
• ISBN 13: 9780470500729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208