Dispositions Are a Teachers Greatest Strength: Mindful Pedagogical Practices to Develop Self-Awareness to Flourish in the Classroom

Dispositions Are a Teachers Greatest Strength will fuel and reignite your classroom practice. Focusing on 13 dispositions specific to teaching, this book encourages educators to identify, reflect, and develop their dispositions, attitudes, and self-awareness to flourish in the profession. Emphasizing pedagogical knowledge and skills, this text serves as an affirmation of a teachers commitment to challenging, complex and rewarding work. It invites educators to consider what a unique privilege it is to teach--to dive into reading, creating space, and embracing dispositions as a teachers greatest strength. Each chapter focuses on one of 13 teaching dispositions--such as curiosity, adaptability, gratitude, resilience, and courage--and offers:

• definitions and contexts for the disposition of focus;
• concrete applications for teachers to practice and develop dispositions with reader-friendly examples and practical strategies;
• a "pause and reflect" section with questions and space for professional reflection.

This book serves as a love letter to educators everywhere: teachers in K-12, administrators in K-12, higher education faculty, and pre-service programs and students. Dispositions Are a Teachers Greatest Strength reminds teachers of the significant work they do by putting dispositions at the forefront of their daily work.