The Intentional Teacher eBook Peter Gow
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Peter Gow;s The Intentional Teacher mines decades of the author's classroom experience to help teachers succeed and forge fulfilling careers. Covering classroom management, planning, getting to know students, and a wealth of other topics, The Intentional Teacher is a comprehensive guide to reaching students of all ages in independent schools.
The Intentional Teacher eBook Peter Gow
Always being the skeptic about books on professional development, I found this book refreshing because it wasn't either written to be easily consumed by teachers or with to many buzz words and educational jargon. But rather a thoughtful guide for teachers who thinking of, or beginning a transition to independent schools.Product details
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The Intentional Teacher eBook Peter Gow Reviews
Peter Gow has distilled his 35-plus years of experience working in education into a compact and engaging manual that should be a welcome addition to any teacher's bookshelf.
"The Intentional Teacher" contains a wealth of practical advice for educators at all stages of their careers, from those just starting out (chapters on finding a teaching job and lesson planning) to mid-career teachers (chapters on continuing education and transitioning from the classroom to the administration). Mr. Gow offers wise counsel throughout on topics such as knowing students, communicating with families, classroom management, diversity awareness and cognitive and social development.
The book's title mirrors the author's own intent in writing it to produce a guide to "help teachers focus on their own intentions--to understand and define their personal missions as educators and then to figure out how to make the most of their skills, energies, and passions in the service of their missions."
For Mr. Gow, a third-generation educator, teaching is "in the blood," but his new book dispels any notion of great teachers being born, not made. The teaching profession has evolved considerably since his grandfather founded The Gow School in 1926 near Buffalo, and the author would be the last one to rest on family laurels.
He writes, "Gone is the era when an independent schoolteaching career could begin with the new graduate being shown into the classroom and then progressing in stately and tweedy fashion over decades toward a punctilious retirement, full of years if not so many honors, with the teacher doing little more than showing up each September....Effective teachers are constantly engaged in the re-examination of both practice and purpose...." This book equips the reader with the tools to do achieve "a kind of greatness, a fully realized capacity" through the hard work of reflective practice not heredity.
"The Intentional Teacher" grew, in part, out of Mr. Gow's work developing a comprehensive curriculum to train new faculty at Beaver Country Day School (outside Boston), where he has been a faculty member since 1980. He writes and presents frequently on professional development, pedagogy and school leadership for publications such as "Education Week" and "Independent School" magazine. In 2005 he published "An Admirable Faculty Recruiting, Hiring, Training and Retaining the Best Independent School Teachers."
When I was hired as a middle school English teacher at St. Gregory College Preparatory School, the head of school gave me a copy of The Intentional Teacher. He also sent me to two Institutes for beginning teachers--ISAS (Independent Schools Association of the Southwest) and ISACS (Independent Schools Association of the Central States).
Gow's book is an excellent resource for new teachers and should be required reading for both the institutes mentioned above. Gow offers a thorough yet accessible introduction into all of the facets of life at independent schools (students, parents, colleagues, governing structure, etc). He also explains many key educational concepts and provides useful templates for how to use them (ie "Backwards Planning," "Bloom's Taxonomy," etc). Reading the Intentional Teacher before I started teaching prepared me with a meaningful way--What is my intention?--to think through my curriculum and pedagogy and I still ask that question on a daily basis.
Always being the skeptic about books on professional development, I found this book refreshing because it wasn't either written to be easily consumed by teachers or with to many buzz words and educational jargon. But rather a thoughtful guide for teachers who thinking of, or beginning a transition to independent schools.
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