Teachers Learn while Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts and Minds [Paperback]

Teachers Learn While Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts And Minds is designed to be a practical guide for student teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, and retired teachers in order to use their exceedingly important gifts to help junior high through senior high school students feel more confident about themselves and their learning. Relating to students with different attitudes and dealing with the educational community can also be some other major challenges.

This book is very helpful to make teaching a joy, to minimize student behavior issues, and to fulfill ones professional obligations in the best ways possible.

There are three parts to this valuable book. Getting Your Act Together contains ideas about thriving personally in order to be that much more successful professionally. Ready, Set, Action! gives practical suggestions to create a more positive atmosphere while having students be more responsible for their own studies and grades. The third part is Suggested Resources that lists all the cited material.

Steve Sonntag has been a mentor teacher, his districts high school teacher of the year, department chairperson, tutor, university and charter school teacher, family and teacher
workshop presenter, Phi Delta Kappa officer, and author during his more than forty years in
education. His goals are to encourage, praise, and inspire his readers in order to improve
their professional lives in practical, creative ways.

Steve Sonntags love for teaching and inspiring definitely shines. What I liked most is that he not only addresses issues/ideas, but also gives practical advice on how to deal with them, such as how to deal with students mood swings and not taking them personally. Beth Mann, substitute teacher

An amazing chronicle of effective teaching practices. Clearly, Steve Sonntag with his lifetime of educational experience has so much to offer. As a teacher of fifteen years, I discovered the principles fl#