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    Outliers in Education
    Outliers in Education
    Outliers in Education
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    Outliers in Education

    By John Shufeldt

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    You have a teacher’s heart, a passion for learning, and you’ve felt the calling to educate future generations of graduates and tomorrow’s leaders.

    After years of observing your teachers’ talents, you might have a good idea of what kind of educator you’d like to be, but there is so much more to learn about impacting your students while thriving in your career.

    Outliers in Education serves as a how-to guide for education majors and current teachers, designed to equip readers with classroom management tips, career advice, and act as a six segment mentorship session with seasoned elementary through college educators in various subjects.

    In composing this teacher ’s guide, life-long student, physician, attorney, entrepreneur, speaker, and master’s level business and law instructor, Dr. John Shufeldt sought out educators who passed the rigorous qualifications he
    identified in his first book, Ingredients of Outliers. These six incredible academic professionals candidly shared their obstacles and ingredients for success in the enclosed chapters. From enhancing your teaching skills, to preparing for a
    career in school administration, you will complete this book having learned the most potent advice for becoming the best educator possible.

    Each chapter contains three sections: Interviews, Action Guides, and Resources designed to equip and guide you. Whether you aspire to be a teacher, professor, or administrator, this collection of wisdom will expand your perspective and serve as a foundation for a vibrant career.

    Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from educators of the highest caliber who want to pass on their life’s work and wisdom on to you!

    Outliers in Education is coming soon in eBook, and paperback formats. Select individual chapters will also be on sale in the Outlier Series store. For updates check back here or go to www.facebook.com/readingredientsofoutliers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Shufeldt
    Release dateMay 25, 2016
    ISBN9781940288819
    Outliers in Education
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    John Shufeldt

    John Shufeldt is a serial student, an indefatigable change agent and a multidisciplinary entrepreneur who has studied the traits and qualities of extraordinary individuals for over three decades. In Ingredients of Outliers John guides us through a number of traits common to outliers and inspires us leave our comfort zones to join their ranks.John received his BA from Drake University in 1982 and his MD from the University of Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School in 1986. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in 1989 where he spent his final year as Chief Resident. John received his MBA in 1995, and his Juris Doctorate in 2005, both from Arizona State University. He is admitted to the State Bar in Arizona, the Federal District Court, and Supreme Court of the United States.He has started numerous health and non-health care businesses and continues to practice emergency medicine and law. He writes and lectures on a variety of subject matters to graduate medical, business and law students. He is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of law where he teaches a clinic on Health Law Entrepreneurism. He serves on the Drake University Board of Trustees and the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law Alumni Board.You can find more information out about John and his work at www.ingredientsofoutliers.com

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      Outliers in Education - John Shufeldt

      Finding Their Passion!

      Like many endeavors, this one started because I needed to learn. I wanted to figure out what mentors – had I been wise enough to engage any – would have taught me along my journey. To that end, I started cataloguing traits of people I believed to be exceptional. These outliers, as I began to call them, simply made everything look easy, even though I knew that wasn’t the case. As I began to distill the traits of my pseudo-mentors, I realized most of them shared and excelled in an abundance of the traits I observed – I was on to something! If I mastered some of these traits, maybe I could achieve some measure of personal and professional success. I was on a mission!

      The genesis of my first two books, Ingredients of Outliers and Ingredients of Young Outliers, was simply to remind myself, and share with others, what insights a mentor would have imparted to me. It's not rocket science was what I often heard. Yet, despite the non-academic flavor of the books, for reasons I'm still discovering, they made a difference in people’s lives – maybe if only to remind them of what they'd once known but had forgotten. Sometimes it only takes a nudge, a minor course correction, to get back on the path of accelerated growth. Hopefully, these books provided that nudge.

      The rest of the Outlier Series takes a slightly different approach. Rather than looking at traits, these books take a deep dive into an individual outlier’s amazing story. What you'll learn as you navigate your way through these chapter is that these remarkable individuals share many common traits and have experienced many similar challenges and obstacles on their trajectory. None of the outliers had it easy and none of their paths was straight – far from it. All struggled, dared and sometimes risked everything. All are humble, tenacious in the face of failure, and continually learn and adapt.

      One of the most important qualities they share is passion. I recognized that passion is the one common denominator of happy, secure, successful individuals, and it's at the core of every outlier in this series. As Nelson Mandela said, There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

      The outliers found and followed their passion at various times in their personal and professional lives. Often, it wasn't until they found their passion and dared mighty things that they achieved their outlier status. They may have been successful and content, but they'll tell you, they were living small. Ultimately, they never accepted that role.

      They wanted to change the world – and they did. Learn from them. Let them be your mentors on your journey to greatness!

      J.S.

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      Chapter 1

      Dr. Robert Kodama

      Biography

      Dr. Robert Kodama

      "When I got students – especially borderline students – into medical school, they’d phone to tell me and I’d say, ‘Hey, that’s great. Let’s go and celebrate.’ They were like my own children. That’s why I say I get a reward from that."

      Robert Kodama

      Dr. Robert Kodama is an Army veteran and Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Drake University. His path to becoming a professor was not a straight line. Encountering financial difficulty along the way, he found a solution to the problem and eventually earned his Ph.D. and became a professor at Drake University. Although he’s been retired for many years, he still maintains relationships with many of his former students.

      Dr. Kodama’s interest in science developed in grade school. He maintained that interest and, when he first went to college, he wanted to be a physicist. While in his junior year, he decided to go into teaching and research. He started out at Northwestern University and later transferred to the University of Hawaii. Upon graduating with a bachelor’s degree, he got a job with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services as a lab technician in the oceanographic department. He worked there until he was drafted into the Army.

      After completing his military service, Dr. Kodama was able to go to graduate school and earn his Ph.D. Upon graduation, he became a professor at Drake, where he taught thousands of prospective doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and other science students.

      Interview

      Dr. Robert Kodama

      Q: Were you always interested in science?

      A: My interest in science developed when I was in grade school. I found it fascinating then, and as I went along, I maintained that interest. When I got to college, I decided I wanted to do something in science.

      The development of my career in teaching and research came in graduate school. As an undergraduate, I still had my interest in science, which is why I majored in Biology. It wasn’t until I arrived on campus and talked to some of my professors and observed them, I thought, Boy, I wouldn’t mind doing something like that. It’s interesting work, and it’s along the lines of my interest.

      While in college I decided to go to graduate school and pursue a Ph.D., then teach and do research at a university.

      Q: Were people supportive of your decision to become a teacher?

      A: I was in college in the early 1950s. At that time, in my perception, the professors weren’t especially outgoing and willing to advise you. Some of them were, but unfortunately weren’t knowledgeable about graduate school. Some were dismissive, but others were helpful to me.

      I can remember a professor who told me to start off on my graduate career immediately, because if I went out to work, I’d have money jingling in my pockets and become satisfied with it and forego my desire to go to graduate school. He told me not to stop and work, but to work only if I had to. It’s easy to get distracted like that.

      Q: Was there ever a time you wanted to give up?

      A: Academically I never got to that point. I felt that I could do the work and my work had been satisfactory at that point.

      Q: Were finances a problem for you in graduate school?

      A: As it turned out, this was my stumbling block in trying to get to graduate school, because I ran out of money. I wasn’t aware that people went to graduate

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