Teaching in Mind explores the largely unexamined influence of teacher beliefs, attitudes, values, and other unique characteristics on their perceptions of students, teaching, and learning and their subsequent behavior…. More >>
Teaching in Mind explores the largely unexamined influence of teacher beliefs, attitudes, values, and other unique characteristics on their perceptions of students, teaching, and learning and their subsequent behavior…. More >>
Teaching In Mind: How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education by education specialist Judith Yero takes a powerful and insightful look at how a teacher’s beliefs about teaching and learning bring an overwhelming influence into perceptions, behavior, and communication with students. From the danger of poorly thought metaphors or unrestrained emotion to learning how to better understand and use one’s own deeply held beliefs in teaching, Teaching In Mind emphasizes the importance of personal psychology in improving one’s skill in the art and science of education. A fine book written to provoke lengthy reflection, Teaching In Mind is welcome and much appreciated addition to teacher education reading lists, academic curriculum texts, and reference collections.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book got me thinking. It helped me to consider and review my personal beliefs and metaphors about education, teaching and learning. It’s a closely reasoned thesis which delves into the mind of teachers, and is written by someone who has had plenty of experience standing in front of a class full of students. I recommend this book because anyone who reads it and who goes through the self-inventory is bound to have plenty of insights into their own thinking. When I finished I had an increased hope for the future of education and the effect individual teacher’s can have.
Rating: 5 / 5
This author offers the view that the key to educational reform lies within the minds of teachers. After twenty years of teaching experience, she concludes that teacher beliefs and attitudes lie at the heart of success or failure in the classroom, and that teacher self-awareness can open up new possibilities. This book is not for teachers only. It’s for parents, too, or anybody who wants to be more self-aware and effective in their social interactions on the job or in their personal lives. Indeed, many true, lasting reforms in all areas of life arise more from a change in thinking and perspective than from external changes. Anyone who leads should read this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
“Teaching in Mind” is one of the best books about education I have read. Judith Lloyd Yero suggests a shift of emphasis from external and superficial changes in the educational system to real attention to the role and “inner landscape” of the teachers, who are real “experts” in the field.
This book guides the readers to introspection, discussing some of the metaphors teachers commonly use and how their beliefs affect and effect the teaching-learning process. The author encourages teachers to expand their perception by means of some reflection and awareness activities, examples of real situations and extensive documentation.
This book is a MUST for those teachers who are committed to improve and want to develop a powerfully compelling vision in education. I would also like to recommend it to parents and to those people who want to reflect on their own experience as learners.
Rating: 5 / 5