| Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: a guide for anyone who teaches anything K-12
by Schoeberlein, Deborah; Sheth, Suki (INT)
Description
As the title implies Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness are two sides of the same coin that work together to enrich the learning process. This book guides current teachers - and those in training - to walk the talk of mindfulness, modeling what they teach through how they teach.
Mindfulness has gone mainstream, and this book pioneers its practical application in American K-12 education. By showing teachers how to tune into what's happening, inside and around them. This book offers educators and parents fresh, straitforward approaches to training attention and generating caring in the classroom and at home.Unique among the mindfulness-oriented curricular materials used in many mainstream classrooms, this book is structured to fit into current curriculum - educators don't have to restructure the classroom, these instructions fit right in, to make an impact immediately. It provides exercises that allow teachers to fully integrate the powerful practice of mindfulness into their daily lives and the learning and teaching experience.
The author incorporates multiple examples from the classroom to illustrate real-life appliacations for mindful teaching. Substantive content on teaching mindfulness highlights developmentally appropriate, research-based classroom-based lessons selected from the widely acclaimed Mindfulness Education (ME) Curriculum published by the Hawn Foundation. A preface by Dr.Stephen Viola grounds mindfulness in education theory.
This creative, approachable book follows a teacher from morning to night on a typical school day. It focuses on a range of topics including classroom procedures, lesson straucture and pacing as well as social and emotional learning. This approach familiarizes the reader with mindfulness and fosters gradual and steady skills development.
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