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Product reviews for Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons
John Dabell, TeacherToolkit.me
“When your mojo is playing hide and seek, you have to surround yourself with fizzy and frothy people and fizzy and jazzy resources. Bubbly things help bring the effervescence back to the surface and help you find the sparkle again.”
One resource that definitely does that for me is Nina Jackson's Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbert Lemons, a humorous and highly accessible book full of the fizzy stuff and “dedicated to the teachers I've met who feel like they've lost their zing, their fizzle, their buzz -¦ The teachers who want the sherbet back in their sherbet lemons.”
This book is a collection of intelligent counsel and practical ideas to help all teachers discover and re-discover their fizz “without blame, guilt or a hidden agenda.”
There is certainly plenty to go at with 33 short chapters devoted to tricky and delicate themes and questions posed by teachers. These stretch from mutism, engagement, dyslexia, inclusiveness, ambition, group work, behaviour and pushy parents to special learning spaces, action research, stutters and stammers, inset day blues, music, motivation, professional relationships, ADD, ADHD, dyspraxia-¦and more. This book has life force written into every page.
Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons is an incredibly insightful and inspiring book and is every chapter offers something new to kick-start your thinking and uplift it too. One of my favourite chapters, I've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, appears about a third of the way through and perhaps should have come right at the start.
It's a great reminder of what teaching and learning means and why we ever chose this crazy profession in the first place. It encourages you to press pause and think about your career choice and what you would miss if you weren't teaching. Nina Jackson encourages us to reflect on who we are and what amazing value teaching adds to our lives. She says,
“When was the last time you stopped, thought about you and told yourself that you are doing a damn fine job in putting the teaching and learning of the children first. At the end of the day, you are your own resource, so if you focus on the reasons why you came into teaching then I'm confident it will help you get your lovin' feeling back.”
If I have made this book sound like it will change your life then I apologise because it won't: it will fire up your Ninja thinking though, fill you with hope and inject you with plenty of energy so you can start kicking and punching again. It will undoubtedly go some considerable way to helping you find your passion for the best job in the world.
No book is a magic wand but Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons will remind you page after page about the magic of teaching, the vigour it can give you and the vitality you can give back. -˜Sherbet lemon' isn't just the password into Professor Dumbledore's Headmaster's office, it should also be the password into every staffroom: if you haven't got your zing then you're not coming in.
Click here to see the article on the Teacher Toolkit website.
One resource that definitely does that for me is Nina Jackson's Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbert Lemons, a humorous and highly accessible book full of the fizzy stuff and “dedicated to the teachers I've met who feel like they've lost their zing, their fizzle, their buzz -¦ The teachers who want the sherbet back in their sherbet lemons.”
This book is a collection of intelligent counsel and practical ideas to help all teachers discover and re-discover their fizz “without blame, guilt or a hidden agenda.”
There is certainly plenty to go at with 33 short chapters devoted to tricky and delicate themes and questions posed by teachers. These stretch from mutism, engagement, dyslexia, inclusiveness, ambition, group work, behaviour and pushy parents to special learning spaces, action research, stutters and stammers, inset day blues, music, motivation, professional relationships, ADD, ADHD, dyspraxia-¦and more. This book has life force written into every page.
Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons is an incredibly insightful and inspiring book and is every chapter offers something new to kick-start your thinking and uplift it too. One of my favourite chapters, I've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, appears about a third of the way through and perhaps should have come right at the start.
It's a great reminder of what teaching and learning means and why we ever chose this crazy profession in the first place. It encourages you to press pause and think about your career choice and what you would miss if you weren't teaching. Nina Jackson encourages us to reflect on who we are and what amazing value teaching adds to our lives. She says,
“When was the last time you stopped, thought about you and told yourself that you are doing a damn fine job in putting the teaching and learning of the children first. At the end of the day, you are your own resource, so if you focus on the reasons why you came into teaching then I'm confident it will help you get your lovin' feeling back.”
If I have made this book sound like it will change your life then I apologise because it won't: it will fire up your Ninja thinking though, fill you with hope and inject you with plenty of energy so you can start kicking and punching again. It will undoubtedly go some considerable way to helping you find your passion for the best job in the world.
No book is a magic wand but Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons will remind you page after page about the magic of teaching, the vigour it can give you and the vitality you can give back. -˜Sherbet lemon' isn't just the password into Professor Dumbledore's Headmaster's office, it should also be the password into every staffroom: if you haven't got your zing then you're not coming in.
Click here to see the article on the Teacher Toolkit website.
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