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    How To Become The Best Teacher You Can Be: 7 Steps to Becoming the Best Teacher You Can Be, Connect with Students, and Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives!
    How To Become The Best Teacher You Can Be: 7 Steps to Becoming the Best Teacher You Can Be, Connect with Students, and Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives!
    How To Become The Best Teacher You Can Be: 7 Steps to Becoming the Best Teacher You Can Be, Connect with Students, and Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives!
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    How To Become The Best Teacher You Can Be: 7 Steps to Becoming the Best Teacher You Can Be, Connect with Students, and Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives!

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    When we look back at our lives, we always remember those few amazing teachers that have made a positive impact in our lives. The term 'favorite teacher' doesn't mean you are always the popular teacher, but the teacher that the kids respect and remember the positive impact you had on them.

    This book is written by a teacher who has impacted the lives of her students and has been labeled a 'favorite teacher' by many of her students. In this guide, you will learn how to become the best teacher you can be, impact the lives of students, and experience great fulfillment in your career of teaching.

    This book provides expert opinions, tips, and personal experiences on how to become a favorite teacher, including:
    - What it means to really get to know your students by memorizing their names early on, showing an interest in what they do outside of school, and simply paying attention.
    - How to remind your students that you are a person—just like them!
    - How to get in the right mindset to not only laugh with your students, but to be available when they need you and be a model of politeness and kindness.
    - What it means to teach children who need role models and how to show them how to be a decent person.
    - How to create a democratic community of learners in which you are fair, consistent, and firm in your interactions with students.
    - How to create lessons, assignments, and activities that are authentic and interest-based and which reflect the ways in which people actually function in the real world.
    - Why it’s important to allow yourself time to engage in professional development and to take personal leave time.

    About the Expert:
    Rachel Sawyer teaches middle school language arts in the Pacific Northwest. She took a nontraditional route to teaching, first earning undergraduate degrees in English Literature and Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno before earning her B.S. in Secondary Education from Bowling Green State University. She recently earned her M.Ed. in Learning and Technology from Western Governors University. She is a life-long learner and sees even more schooling in her future. She is an avid reader and lover of cats. In her spare time (that is, when she isn’t reading), Rachel spends her time writing, knitting, and playing video games.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHowExpert
    Release dateJul 19, 2017
    ISBN9781370718634
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      How To Become The Best Teacher You Can Be - HowExpert

      How To Become the Best Teacher You Can Be

      7 Steps to Becoming the Best Teacher You Can Be, Connect with Students, and Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives!

      HowExpert Press & Rachel Sawyer

      Copyright HowExpert.com

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      Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Get to Know Your Students

      Chapter 2: Allow Your Students to Know You

      Chapter 3: Attitude is Key

      Chapter 4: They’re Just Kids

      Chapter 5: Be Democratic

      Chapter 6: Lessons, Assignments, and Activities

      Chapter 7: It’s Okay to Take a Personal/Professional Day

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      Chapter 1: Get to Know Your Students

      The first step in becoming a favorite teacher is getting to know your students. Think back to your own favorite teachers from elementary, middle, and high school. What was it that made those teachers special? I guarantee the teachers that come to mind are those whom you believe truly cared about you not only as a student, but as an individual. They took the time to learn your quirks, your likes, and dislikes. They asked how you and your family spent long holiday weekends, and they paid attention while you droned on and on about the good (or bad) times you had. These teachers knew you. Knowing your own students will cause them to conjure your image some day when they’re asked, Who were your favorite teachers?

      Learn and Memorize Their Names

      One of the saddest things I inevitably hear at the end of each school year is that a colleague still doesn’t know his/her students’ names. I’m not talking about the brief blips we all experience in which you fail to call a student by his/her actual name, nor am I talking about those moments where you have 15 other details that must be recalled at the exact time a student’s name briefly vanishes from your brain. I am angry and frustrated when I overhear a colleague admit that he/she doesn’t know students’ names. It breaks my heart when students tell me, Mrs. X doesn’t even know my name.

      Prior to the start of each school year, I review the rosters for each of my class periods. If I’m teaching a grade level different from the year before, I may be lucky enough to

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