Teaching for Success: Developing Your Teacher Identity in Today's Classroom [Paperback]

Teaching For Successis a comprehensive guide for navigating the process of becoming an effective teacher in the wake of contemporary and systemic challenges. Focusing on the core concept of teacher identity in clear, invigorating prose, the book illuminates how teachers can arrange, adjust, and assemble their own personal and professional teaching influences in conjunction with educational research into a coherent, unique, and successful whole. Olsens attention to classroom practice, social justice issues, personal satisfaction, and teacher success stories offers a sharp and useful guide for teacher development. This revised second edition has been updated and includes a new chapter that guides both new and experienced teachers through emerging, thorny issues in educational policy and practice, including high-stakes testing, blended learning, the demands of networking, and the Common Core State Standards.

Foreword by Eric Howard Habegger

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: The Complexities of Teaching

Chapter Two: Knowledge, Learning, and Identity for Teachers

Chapter Three: Combining the Personal and the Professional in Teaching: An Example

Chapter Four: Leveraging Your Teacher Identity into a Successful Professional Self

Chapter Five: The Human Dimensions of Teaching and Identity

Chapter Six: The Political Dimensions of Teaching and Identity

Chapter Seven: Teacher Identity and the Contemporary Landscape of Teaching

Appendix: Your Teacher Identity Worksheet

About the Author

References

Index