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How Good Teachers Thrive

Flourishing Long Term in a Noble Profession

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How Good Teachers Thrive

Flourishing Long Term in a Noble Profession

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How Good Teachers Thrive:Flourishing Long Term in a Noble Profession offers teachers hope by outlining ways to think about and fulfill their teaching vocations. The book opens by surveying some of the ways the non-teaching public and teachers themselves view and talk about teachers and teaching. To help teachers think about their work in new ways, it offers some new and unusual metaphors for the central activities of teaching and teachers' work. It addresses some of the specific challenges novice, mid-career, and veteran teachers face, then suggests strategies and practices to help them carry out their day-to-day teaching tasks in ways that nourish and sharpen their sense of vocation. These suggested strategies have their sources in educational research, interviews conducted with senior educators, and written responses to questions sent to mid-career educators. In the end, the book goes over the dispositions, strategies, systems, and practices typically associated with long-term flourishing in the teaching profession to help teachers who want to thrive inside and outside their school buildings.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Snapshots of Teaching
2 The Language of Teaching: Vocation, Calling, Work, Career, Job, Profession
3 Teachers' Day-to-Day Work: A Model
4 Teaching: Intense and Complex with Mixed Rewards
5 Teachers' Worldviews
6 Classroom Ideals and a Philosophy of Education
7 Metaphors for Flourishing
8 Flourishing in the Induction Years
9 The Middle Years
10 Voices from the Classroom
11 The Summit Push
12 Six Kinds of People One Meets on the Road
13 Supporters
14 Dispositions that Foster Flourishing
15 Staying Focused on the Journey
16 Nurturing the Teacher's Core
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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 08 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 232
ISBN 9781475874716
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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