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Teaching That Changes Lives

10 Mindset Tools for Igniting the Love of Learning

by (author) Marilee Adams

Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Initial publish date
Sep 2013
Category
Professional Development
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781609945695
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $26.95

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Since writing her international bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams has increasingly been responding to speaking and consulting requests from educators. Drawing on what she has learned from these experiences she presents the ultimate guide for teachers looking to change the lives of their students while significantly improving their own lives in the process.

Adams weaves a compelling story of one teacher's lasting impact on a student to demonstrate how educators can practice and pass on what she calls the Learner Mindset - consistently asking the kind of open-minded, creative, positive questions that encourage curiosity and growth. She contrasts this with the Judger mindset - negative, close-minded, and limiting - that we all too easily succumb to, particularly under pressure - and, as she shows, teachers today are under enormous pressure. Complete with a field-ready workbook that brings Adams? tools for cultivating a Learner mindset directlyinto the classroom, this book will help teachers become more resilient and better able to nurture a lifelong love of learning in even their most hard-to-reach students.

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Contributor Notes

Marilee Adams, PhD, is an author, executive coach, facilitator, and professional speaker. She is president and founder of the Inquiry Institute, a consulting, coaching, and educational organization and the originator of the Question Thinking? methodologies. In addition to her consultancy, Marilee serves as an adjunct professor at American University's School of Public Affairs in their Key Executive Leadership Program, and is a member of the Core Faculty, Certificates in Leadership Coaching, cosponsored by Adler International Learning and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University Toronto. She is also affiliated with Columbia University's Learning & Leadership Group at Teachers College. Marilee's Question Thinking work forms the core of her presentations, keynotes, workshops and workdays in organizations (including Fortune 50 companies), government agencies, nonprofits, and for communities.