ISBN: 9781732699496
A weekly, guided journal top help you reflect on your goals, improve what needs improving, and celebrate what you’ve gotten right. Filled with quotes to ponder and prompts to organize your thoughts, this is the perfect journal for any teacher who’s committed to pursuing greatness all year long.
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Self-reflection is one of the most powerful habits a teacher can develop. McREL is pleased to bring you the perfect companion to your reflective journey: a guided journal to help you chronicle which classroom practices are going great, which could stand some improvement, and how you’re growing and changing along the way.
Have you ever written in a journal or diary before? This is pretty much the same, except it’s focused on your work as a professional educator. The Journal gives you weekly open-ended writing prompts crafted to help you develop new habits of thinking. In repeated succession, you’ll progress through these themes:
WOW weeks: Something went well in your teaching this week (it did!). Let’s celebrate it, and then think about why it’s important to you and how you can replicate it.
YIKES weeks: Mistakes happen. Turn your mistakes into powerful learning opportunities using the reflective process and plan for a positive outcome next time.
GOAL weeks: Identify a particular outcome you want to achieve—such as a skill you’d like to master or a structure you’d like to implement—and plan how you’re going to achieve it.
QUESTION weeks: What do you need to know about your students, your professional responsibilities, or education in general?
TACKLE A FEAR weeks: Is something holding you back? Confront it and watch your capacity for success increase.
Underpinning the journal is the Reflective Cycle—a concept that co-authors Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral (along with Bryan Goodwin, Bj Stone, and Bess Scott) also explored in Pursuing Greatness: Empowering Teachers to Take Charge of Their Professional Growth.
OCLC number: 2020905056
Mary Smith is a former teacher and curriculum specialist who speaks, coaches, writes, podcasts, and wonders about ways that we can amplify our roles as educators.
Pete Hall is a former award-winning school principal and the author of 12 books designed to build individual and leadership capacity. He speaks and consults internationally; when he’s not on the road, he and his family live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with their three rambunctious dogs.
Alisa Simeral has guided reform efforts as a teacher, instructional coach, administrator, professional developer, and leadership mentor in K-12 and adult education settings. Her focus is empowering educators to take charge of their professional learning by developing and refining their metacognitive habits. She is the author of numerous books for educators and consults with schools and education systems worldwide, supporting their work to cultivate reflective practice and shift from cultures of compliance to cultures of commitment.
