"Are you educating your students to make a living or to design a life?"
HIDDEN LIVES Teenage experiences and habits that shape homes and classrooms
EXPLORES HOW ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA, AND PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT IMPACTS ON THE SOCIAL VALUES AND LIFE OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN.
Thirty children voice the difficulties they face in life and how this manifests in their attitudes towards education, other people and their self-worth. A range of educational and healthcare professionals add their voices with regards to strategies for addressing the challenges posed by the negative habits. Explanations are also offered in terms of the physiological developments that young people go through, that can steer their thinking towards undesirable actions. This book is ideal for both newly qualified teachers and experienced practitioners that want to understand how to establish positive working relationships with students that either project confrontational or indifferent behaviours. It is also a useful tool for parents, for learning more and better approaches to relating to their children.
HIDDEN LIVES 2024 online, is a conference on the same subject matters as contained in this book. This is viewable via: https://youtu.be/IzV-M_goja4?si=wIdAnrwzBnrxB5b8
18 Acknowledgements of Exceptional Teachers
EXPLORES THE FACTORS THAT NEED TO BE RECOGNISED AND CAN BE APPLIED BY EDUCATORS TO HELP THEM ESTABLISH STRONG PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR STUDENTS
The starting basis of good education is in its intent. This is the concept upon which this book is built on. There is recognition that parenting works because it is founded on love and nurture. Similarly this book explains how education can truly work, with the application of nurture principles that inform on a need to recognise all behaviour as communication. Many challenges, particularly trauma, and undiagnosed special educational needs that children can bring to the classroom are introduced. A strong need to acknowledge and implement solutions for these barriers to learning, is palpable. This book is described as a love letter to teachers, as empathy and compassion threads throughout every page.
This book is available from Amazon in paperback
Gorilla Masks THE EXPERIENCED TEACHING YEARS
WRITTEN TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND LEARNT BEHAVIOURS AND THE CHALLENGES THEY POSE
This is a follow up on Gorilla Masks THE TEACHER TRAINING YEAR. Again based on true stories, this book showcases many great examples of learnt behaviours and the impact they can have on the education and wellbeing of all those that are affected. It challenges teachers to reflect on the often hidden but agonising social lives of young people, the barriers to learning it creates and the necessity to apply empathy in judgements when dealing with students. It will help with affirming reasons for becoming a teacher in the first place. It will help with finding your WHY power for staying in teaching and resolve to see things through.
This book is available from Amazon in paperback
Gorilla Masks THE TEACHER TRAINING YEAR
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EMOTIONAL CHALLENGES OF SCHOOL LIFE
Gorilla Masks THE TEACHER TRAINING YEAR is written as a novel. This book explores emotional education, the fact that there are many behaviours adults working in school settings find challenging. It examines what possible outcomes can be achieved when empathy is placed at the centre of teaching practice. Based on factual events, Liahem, leaves his comfortable environment in a law firm to become a trainee teacher.
He is disturbed by unruly behaviour of students he encounters in the placement schools he is sent. This drives him to consider if he made the right career move. As Liahem goes from one school to another, he begins to wonder whether what he often sees as flagrant disrespect from pupils is new or was present during his time as a school pupil. Reflecting on his own past as a young student, he begins to find more reasons for wanting to work with young people. The question is, will he survive his teacher training year or give up?
This book is designed to introduce anyone thinking of becoming a teacher to the genuine culture of inner city school life in England. It will help with navigating the labyrinth of emotional conflicts most trainees and newly qualified teachers go through at the beginning of their careers. It will help with self assurance that difficulties, no matter how perplexing, are surmountable.
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Who or What am I to you?
RECOGNISE THE VALUES THAT POWERS YOUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS
This is a tale of two types of traits.
Of good Vs evil, of strength Vs weakness,
of hope Vs fear. It is an exploration of the worst and best of humanity and our endeavours. At the heart of this book is a question. What does it mean to be human?
This first half of book delves into the negative characteristics of people. This encompasses topics like vanity, neglect, fear and wars. The second part speaks about admirable and desired qualities like love, friendship and success.
This book has been described as :
I think, I feel.
I listened to this book.
I heard about my past.
I heard about my present.
I saw my future.
I love this book because emotions were opened in me
This book is available from Amazon in paperback and kindle.