ISBN: 9781663261625 - be the adult: how to make a positive difference in your students' lives (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I will never forget the moment I first learned to 'Be the Adult.' It was in my first job as an administrator after many years of teaching. I bested a kid in a passionate argument and sent him back to class while my boss and mentor looked on. I glowed with pride until he quietly deflated me with the five words that changed the rest of my career: 'Remember, Lance: You're the adult.' That phrase floods my mind with stories, the stories in this book. Some are heroic, some are embarrassing, but all of them can help you learn what I learned. I had to be the adult in a band room facing hostile kids, and facing students who played a passage so beautifully it brought tears to my eyes. I had to be the adult on 110-degree Tucson, Arizona, football fields, in band buses far from home - and facing concerned superintendents and furious teachers as an administrator. Schools can and do change students for the better, but only on one condition: Someone has to Be the Adult.…