The Likable, Effective, and Productive Educator: Being the Best You Can Be as an Educator [Hardcover]

As the role of an educator becomes more and more complex and the expectations continue to be heaped upon them, stress increases exponentially. Educators now have the pressure to be role models in their thoughts and actions, and yet are not sure how to be one. This book will discuss how to be productive and effective in a role that requires ever more balance and self-discipline now than ever. Further, education is an occupation of relationships. Relationships among peers, all levels of faculty, parents and students are essential in order to create a strong teaching environment. This book will address means of how to increase relational skills while simultaneously developing assertiveness traits and maintaining ones values, integrity, and establishment of cultural competence and communication skills.Brett J. Novick has a masters degree in family therapy and post graduate certifications in school social work as well as educational leadership, He is an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University. Mr. Novick is the author of Parents and Teachers Working Together and has had published numerous national and international articles as well as received several awards for his work in education, administration, counseling, social work, and human rights.

This book exceeded my expectations. I've known Brett Novick to be a passionate and compassionate educator, who understands that it is about inter-personal relationships in the education setting that really makes or breaks an organization's success. But with this book, he's proved to touch on the 'affective' domain of an educational environment. I can tell you that not a day goes by, in my role as Superintendent of Schools, where I don't try to communicate that it's relationships not programs that change students - Brett provides the supporting data and an instruction method to do this in practice. I learned more from this book than any other I've read in years. Thomas G. Farrell, Shared Regional Superintendent of Schoollƒ.