Teach Like Yourself: How Authentic Teaching Transforms Our Students and Ourselves by Gravity Goldberg
- Knowing your core beliefs
- Viewing teaching as a practice
- Building balanced relationships
- Driving professional growth
- Taking care of your whole self
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Gravity Goldberg reminds us all that successful teachers are driven less by curriculum guides and more by the relationships they take the time to build with colleagues, students, and families. Goldberg's personal stories give us more than a glimpse into her own continuous-improvement journey; in this way she builds an effective and instructive relationship with readers at any grade level. I highly recommend this book for teachers and administrators.
-- Ron Nash, Education Consultant, Author From Seatwork to Feetwork and The Active ClassroomI love this book! Gravity Goldberg addresses many important issues of our profession during this digital age. Too often what we see on social media creates an insecurity in ourselves, when those images do not tell the whole story. She believes this obsession with the next bandwagon gets us away from our why. Instead of getting caught up in teaching like someone else, Goldberg shows us the importance of teaching like ourselves.
-- Peter DeWitt, Author/ConsultantHow I wish this book was out when I started teaching! The principles and strategies here will make me a better teacher even as a veteran. It is a gift to the field.
-- Julie Stern, Author and TrainerGravity Goldberg understands the power of story! In Teach Like Yourself, she urges us to find and use our core stories about teaching and learning to become more than a person who delivers a program or teaching script. She shares her personal accounts of when she practiced in ways that weren't true to herself, when she was, and how she has learned to be more deeply attuned to her own authenticity, more often. She poses questions to help us explore how reflection, creativity, and imagination lead to responsive teaching and trusting relationships with students, colleagues, and ourselves. Each chapter moves us deeper into a process that puts us in touch with our core beliefs about teaching and learning and how to nurture and broaden those beliefs. Gravity shows us how to learn from students and other educators and take ownership of our teaching lives. Finally, her call to action-join the movement of #teachlikeyourself-invites us to transform the culture of accountability, teaching to tests, and blame into a culture that helps us find our teaching greatness.
-- Laura Robb, Education ConsultantGravity Goldberg's Teach Like Yourself offers a masterful instructional lens through which we get to view-and take on- a transformative process leading to professional ownership. Gravity dedicates her book to 'brave' teachers everywhere and then shows us how to nurture our inner brave. Through her wisdom, we learn how to turn teaching inward, to our strengths and to discovering and nurturing our innermost beliefs about learning. Through this reflection rises new knowledge and renewed courage. Owning this book is like having Gravity Goldberg as our personal professional life coach, for she gently nudges us to authenticity while ever reminding us to keep self-care in our sights. Three simple but powerful words suddenly loom large throughout this book, and will inspire us all to bring her words to life - 'You are enough.'
-- Mary Howard, Education Consultant at Reading PartnersConsidering the current trend in teacher burnout, Teach Like Yourself is a much need book that addresses 'the whole teacher,' and it does so by seamlessly intertwining stories, self-help strategies, research, and practical tips for the classroom. This book will serve as a much needed shot in the arm for teachers who have lost their way, while helping all educators to enhance their work by encouraging them to be confident and stay true to who they are.
-- Ross Cooper, Principal, Author, Hacking Project Based Learning * Old Tappan, NJ *Gravity Goldberg has written an inspirational book that will touch the heart and challenge the mind of educators who are looking for ways to meet the needs of their students. Not only does Gravity's work honor teachers' voice and agency, it instills a sense of hope and confidence in transforming learning and teaching in schools so that collective efficacy is realized.
-- Jenni Donohoo, ConsultantTeachers will find something precious in this deeply validating book from Gravity Goldberg: trust in themselves. Goldberg, using a mix of personal story and research, has given a gift to teachers, calling us to resist external pressures to compare and compete with each other and to listen to our own inner wisdom.
-- Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the YearSo much of the time my students sometimes are trying to figure out how to teach like me or a theorist that they read about or a cooperating teacher they would like to emulate. Like this book mentions it is important for teachers to find themselves, and use their particular strengths and gifts. I think this book will give my students the opportunity to be okay with being themselves. This book helps them to understand we are all works in progress and to understand both our strengths and areas of improvement. This book will help me to facilitate my students personal teaching reflections.
-- Natalie Young, Ed. D.