Fearless Teaching (25-Pack)

Ground Your Practice Through Reflection and Self-Discovery

By Caitlin McLemore and Sam Passeport

ISBN: 9781564849953

Release Date: November 2024

Length: 6 pages

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Learn how to develop skills to identify areas of strength and potential growth to innovate in your teaching and deepen your professional satisfaction with this inspirational and accessible guide.

Educators have limited bandwidth and need manageable strategies to support them in their everyday work. Based on the book Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice, this practical guide is filled with immediately applicable insights that lead teachers on a path of self-discovery. Educators will find guidance on how to start a journey toward action and growth, put a vision into action, overcome fear of failure, receive and deliver meaningful feedback, and embrace habits of self-reflection.

Features include:

• Meditation prompts for self-reflection.
• Tips and insights related to online and pandemic-era learning.
• A “Flexibility Quiz” to help assess your practice and guide you in a path toward self-growth.
• Connections to the educators section of the ISTE Standards. 

With this creative resource as your guide, embrace curiosity and wonder as you set forth on a journey toward self-discovery and fearlessly grow your teaching practice.

(ISTE Jump Start Guide, 8.5" x 11", 3 laminated panels, 6 pages, 25-pack)

Audience: Elementary and secondary educators

About the Authors

Caitlin McLemore is a senior research associate and project manager at ISTE. She holds an Ed.D. in technology integration from Johns Hopkins and an M.Ed. in elementary education from the University of Florida. Prior to working at ISTE, McLemore was an educational technology consultant with experience in curriculum design, educational research, instructional coaching and teacher professional development. She also worked for eight years in PK-12 independent schools as an academic technology specialist. McLemore is a Google Certified Innovator and Trainer, and an ISTE Certified Educator. With Sam Passeport, she is co-author of Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice.

Sam Passeport, M.Ed., is the founder of No Borders Learning, which guides PK-12 schools, educators and families in developing healthy learning ecosystems that attend to the heart, exercise the mind and engage willpower. She is also an online education doctoral student at the University of Dundee, and has over 11 years of experience in PK-12 international schools. Passeport also works as an education development officer with the radical innovation unit ErasmusX at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is a published author and an award-winning educator. With Caitlin McLemore, she is co-author of Stretch Yourself: A Personalized Journey to Deepen Your Teaching Practice.