Part 1 of this book uses a critical socio?political lens is used to guide readers through the complexities of career thrival. Framed within the story of one new urban teacher’s typical morning, the book begins with an overview of the socio?political forces that lead to urban teacher burn out. In spite of the obstacles, the more hopeful idea of urban teacher thrival is uncovered through narrative methodology. Part 2 is dedicated to the dynamic narrative of a veteran urban teacher career journey. This inspiring story is related to frameworks established in Part 1, as well as painting a picture of how public education has evolved over the last 40 years, and it’s impact on the lives of teachers.
Part 3 takes a deeper dive into three salient themes that permeated throughout the participant’s story. First hope springs eternal is the idea that sustaining hope supported the teacher’s career thrival. Next, the extended education family is the notion that familial?like relationships at school nourished her longevity. The third theme, creative autonomy, reveals that by being empowered with opportunities for curriculum development and instructional decision?making the teacher maintained her passion. This book concludes with recommendations for teachers, educational leaders and teacher educators to develop and maintain thriving teachers.
Teacher burn out contributes to the epidemic of early career exit. At least half of all new K teachers leave the profession by the time they reach their fifth year of teaching. Conversely, there are urban teachers who survive burn out and thrive as career long educators. This book results from an indepth qualitative study that explored one 40year veteran teacher's career narrative, analyzing how she not only survived the burn out epidemic, but also thrived as a highly effective careerlong urban teacher.Part 1 of this book uses a critical sociopolitical lens is used to guide readers through the complexities of career thrival. Framed within the story of one new urban teacher's typical morning, the book begins with an overview of the sociopolitical forces that lead to urban teacher burn out. In spite of the obstacles, the more hopeful idea of urban teacher thrival is uncovered through narrative methodology. Part 2 is dedicated to the dynamic narrative of a veteran urban teacher career journey. This inspiring story is related to frameworks established in Part 1, as well as painting a picture of how public education has evolved over the last 40 years, and it's impact on the lives of teachers.Part 3 takes a deeper dive into three salient themes that permeated throughout the participant's story. First hope springs eternal is the idea that sustaining hope supported the teacher's career thrival. Next, the extended education family is the notion that familiallike relationships at school nourished her longevity. The third theme, creative autonomy, reveals that by being empowered with opportunities for curriculum development and instructional decisionmaking the teacher maintained her passion. This book concludes with recommendations for teachers, educational leaders and teacher educators to develop and maintain thriving teachers.
Cover 1
Series page 2
Teach & Thrive
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 5
Contents 6
Preface 8
Series Editors’ Preface 14
PART I: Setting the Stage: The Teacher Burn Out/Burn In Epidemic 16
Chapter 1: Teacher Burn Out in the City 18
Chapter 2: One Teacher’s Story or the Story of Too Many? 24
Chapter 3: Stress and Burn Out in the Teaching Life 38
Chapter 4: Hope, Passion, and Possibility Restored by the Thriving Teacher 46
PART II: Alice’s Narrative of Career Thrival in Three Acts 56
Chapter 5: A Narrative With the Fortitude to Break Down the Burn Out Epidemic 58
Chapter 6: Career Beginnings or “A Happy Accident!” 68
Chapter 7: Middle Career Paves a Calling 88
Chapter 8: Middle Career to Retirement or “The Affirmation Era” 108
Chapter 9: Renewal or What Retirement? 134
PART III: Thrival as Contagious: Burn Out Recovery and Prevention 158
Chapter 10: The Teacher Thrival Mobius Strip 160
Chapter 11: Hope Springs Eternal 164
Chapter 12: The Extended Education Family 172
Chapter 13: Creative Autonomy 182
Chapter 14: Students as Spiritual Sustenance 192
Chapter 15: A Counter-Narrative to Teacher Bashing 198
Chapter 16: Recommendations to Spread Teacher Thrival 202
References 214
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2016 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
Geisteswissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-68123-583-8 / 1681235838 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-68123-583-7 / 9781681235837 |
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