Hello-- The SuperHERO Teacher here! During the summer, and even during the school year, I love
to get lost in an inspiring professional development book to inspire me to make
a positive difference in my students’ lives while they are in my classroom!
Today, I am going to share some of my favorite professional development books
and resources to further the impact you’re having on your students.
To help guide you through your professional development reads, I've created a notes page for you to document the most important themes, ideas, or takeaways from the books! You can download the freebie here or by clicking the photo below.
Let me take a moment to tell you about the professional
development book that rocked my world—Mindset: The New Psychology of Success byCarol Dweck. Growth mindset is so much
more than an educational buzz word right now—it’s a way to help your students
handle perseverance, determination, and failure with confidence in their
abilities. Isn’t that an incredible
power to have? I was familiar with growth mindset, but I didn’t truly
understand the science behind it, and if I don’t understand something, I
definitely cannot translate it into something students can use. Therefore, I purchased this book and even
after the first time reading through, Dweck was a able to easily explain the
science behind growth mindset and how to implement it in your classroom. If you haven’t already, you should absolutely
sit down at the pool this summer and quickly read through this PD book for
educators. You’ll feel focused and
inspired to shape your students’ mindsets.
My friend Christina from The Daring English Teacher
suggested this incredibly powerful professional development read called
Teaching With Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can do about It. The author,
Eric Jenson, talks candidly about how poverty hurts children, and how schools
can ultimately improve academic achievement and life readiness of economically
disadvantaged students. This is our ultimate job as educators—to make sure we
are reaching every single student that enters our classroom. That can be challenging, but it’s empowering
and rewarding to have that sort of impact on students—especially those who need
it most.
Creating a classroom environment and atmosphere that is
synonymous with that YOU want and what’s best for your students can be a bit of
a challenge, which is why I created this Transform Your Classroom in 20 Steps Challenge to inspire you to achieve the classroom of your dreams. In the challenge, I provide specific action
steps designed to guide you through the process of creating a classroom that is
inspiring, organized, and purposeful for your students. I designed this resource based on the Extreme
Makeover Classroom Editions that I host for deserving teachers, so all of my
secrets and suggestions are included in this booklet. In addition, I include six (6) extension
videos where I go into more details about how to transform your classroom
environment, which serves as a mini-professional development.
Brittany Wheaton
The SuperHERO Teacher
