Failure Before Success

Teachers Describe What They Learned from Mistakes

Failure Before Success
Julie Warner
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h218 x 154mm - 132pg
13 Jun 2021 US
9781475857481
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Even the best, most accomplished teachers make (sometimes big) mistakes. But as the experts and authority figures in their classrooms, teachers face myriad pressures to have all the answers and, in some cases, to work miracles. This book brings together first-hand stories from classrooms across the globe of hard-won lessons stemming from teachers' mistakes and failures both small and colossal to show how becoming expert actually necessitates failure. It' s through their mistakes that the most successful people arrive at greatness. Failure Before Success brings together accounts from everyone from a world-renowned Finnish education scholar and global policy advisor to distinguished professors of education to veteran teachers with decades of experience working in the complex field of teaching. While there are silver bullet books for teachers on the market, none match the comfort Failure Before Success offers by telling the stories of how some of the most accomplished in the field got it wrong and turned their mistakes into their greatest lessons on teaching excellence.
Any educator with an evolving learners' mindset knows it' s quite liberating when we realize choosing to take risks, be compliant, or daring to reimagine will lead to some inevitable frustrations. The transformative liberating power comes when we chose to redefine our struggles with ownership and perspective shifts, through reflection, self interrogation and recentering our learners. These introspective educators have explicitly and vulnerably offered to share the often unspoken internal work of a lifetime learner. They have chosen to pay it forward from their own lessons of failure before success and are inviting us to dare to reimagine what' s possible as a learner. --Madeline Mendon, Youth-Centered Educator Experience is the great teacher. And yet our educational culture too often leaves educators reluctant to talk openly about their missteps. That' s what makes Julie Warner' s new book, Failure Before Success, so valuable-- it offers the kind of hard-earned wisdom that can make all the difference. Teachers everywhere, new and old alike, would do well to check it out. --Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute Next year my lessons will be perfect. I will know exactly what I am doing, and I won' t have to change a thing!" I would proclaim at the end of each year of 16-hour teacher-days all 20 years of teaching high school and middle school. And if I hadn' t left to direct a National Writing Project, I would have probably repeated it after my 21st year also. These personal accounts most notably let teachers know that we are not alone. In sharing mistakes made, these educators make us all more compassionate of other educators and of ourselves and give us permission to learn and transform our teaching. Through the reflections of others, readers will discover that it is not the destination; it is the journey. --Lesley Roessing, former secondary and university educator and author of No More "Us' and "Them," Talking Texts, Bridging the Gap, and The Write to Read This outstanding book by Julie Warner provides a core and essential set of knowledge and skills for teachers that will facilitate their success, well-being and positive impact on students. I believe it should be a staple resource for all teachers. --Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing, The Ohio State University We know that students can learn from failure, and this book demonstrates that teachers can too. These engaging essays offer an invitation for teachers to make meaning from their mistakes, and continue to grow and evolve in service to their students. --James M. Lang, PhD, author of Distracted: Why Students Can' t Focus and What You Can Do About It When beginning educators learn from experienced teachers, it often appears to them that expert instruction emerges by magic. Failure Before Success dispels the myth of perfect teaching and demonstrates that veteran educators have learned from many mistakes and missteps. Julie Warner' s anthology will be very useful in any general pedagogy course for beginning teachers and will likely be read with great interest by veteran teachers who will no doubt relate to the brave testimonies of despair, hope, and transformation honestly shared throughout the text. --Gilberto Q. Conchas, Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Professor at the Pennsylvania State University
Julie Warner, EdD, left the classroom fewer than 10 years ago-close enough that she can still vividly remember her first few rocky years with their emotional and logistical landmines, but long enough to have had a career in education since then that includes obtaining a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University, stints as an Education Policy Advisor in the U. S. Senate and the White House, and overseeing the teacher issues portfolio within the U. S. Department of Education' s internal think tank. Even as she' s advised on high-level policy decisions in education, she' s always stayed close to the classroom: she' s a National Board Certified Teacher, has published books on teaching with technology, and is an education journalist for Course Hero' s Faculty Club, one of the top 250 sites on the web.
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ISBN-13: 9781475857481
Published: 13 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Paperback
Height: 218mm
Width: 154mm
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 277g
Pages: 132

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