Energising teaching : the power of your unique pedagogical gift /
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Camberwell, Victoria :
ACER Press, an imprint of Australian Council for Educational Research,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword by Andy Hargreaves; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: speaking personally ... ; How this book is organised; Part One: The Big Picture; Chapter one: Fifteen inspiring stories; Insights from other professions; Abstracts of unique pedagogical gifts; The 15 'ordinary' teachers; Awakening the sleeping giant; Chapter summary; Chapter two: Unpacking the concept of 'pedagogical gifts'; Gifts; Pedagogy; Energised teaching; Your pedagogical gift; Chapter summary.
- Part Two: Strategies For Discovering, Enriching and Sharing Pedagogical GiftsChapter three: The power of personality in shaping pedagogical gifts; Personality matters; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Chapter summary; Chapter four: Four extrinsic influences in shaping pedagogical gifts; The subject that stirs your passion; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Your first-choice teaching niche; Insights from the GIFTS Project; The form of interactive learning where you sparkle; Insights from the GIFTS Project; The amazing human brain; Insights from the GIFTS Project; A first attempt at synthesis.
- Chapter summaryChapter five: Enriching and sharing pedagogical gifts; Strategies for enriching and sharing pedagogical gifts; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Seeking sage advice; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Seeing below the surface; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Co-mentoring; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Refining your pedagogical gift; Chapter summary; Part Three: A Profession of Consequence Comes of Age; Chapter six: School leadership that embraces the value of pedagogical gifts; Two stories of energised leadership; What GIFTS participants confided in us.
- Leadership for pedagogical giftsChapter summary; Chapter seven: Reclaiming the power of the teaching profession; Four adages for school leaders; Insights from the GIFTS Project; Seven implacable questions; A Hippocratic Oath for 21st century teachers; Chapter summary; Afterword; Appendix A: The GIFTS Professional Learning Program; Exercise 1 (S): Think back to what makes me curious; Exercise 2 (S): Exploring gifts in another profession; Exercise 3 (S): Probing the 15 narratives; Exercise 4 (C): The 10-minute readiness test; Exercise 5 (C): My personal theory of pedagogy.
- Exercise 6 (C): Making the pedagogical most of my personalityExercise 7 (C): I was born to teach this ... ; Exercise 8 (S): Mars and Venus in my classroom; Exercise 9 (C): My first-choice teaching niche; Exercise 10 (C): The form of interactivity where I sparkle; Exercise 11 (C): The allure of the amazing human brain; Exercise 12 (C): Expressing my personal pedagogical gift; Exercise 13 (C): Iconic roleplay; Exercise 14 (C): A conversation with an education oracle; Exercise 15 (C): Dances with learners; Exercise 16 (C): Singing from the same song-sheet.