Chicken Soup for the Soul Teacher Tales: 101 Inspirational Stories from Great Teachers and Appreciative Students

 Chicken Soup for the Soul Teacher Tales:
101 Inspirational Stories from Great Teachers and Appreciative Students



I touch the future, I teach.
---Christa McAuliffe
(p.369)

一本教學與生命啟發的書，
有笑，
有淚，
有欣喜，
有無奈，
有成就，
有挫折。
教師的生涯，
希望的工程，
故事，
反省，
回顧，
101個故事，
讓教育工作者滿是熱情，
在教育崗位，
有更深的體悟，
有更高的奉獻，
對學生，
關注，
疼惜。
共同為彼此的相遇，
造成深遠的影響，
感動，
改變，
教育愛。

這本許多優秀教師分享的成長之書，
共有11個部分，
從不同層面分享教學經驗，教學創思及教學期許。
一則則故事，發人深省，激勵人心 。
1. Why We Teach
2. First Year Tales
3. Learning from the Kids
4. Great Ideas
5. Thanks, I Needed That
6. That Was Embarrassing
7. Touched by a Student
8. The Teacher Who Changed My Life
9. Tough Kids
10. Reconnecting
11. Reflections on Being a Teacher     

這本書，
我最喜歡的文字是每篇文章標題下引用的教育小語，
101則故事+101則智慧小語，
讓閱讀這本書，時時被文字感動，常常探尋字裡行間的教育智慧。


1. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the  book.
    ~Author Unknown (p.1)
2. Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana (p.78)
3. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren (p.85)
4. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
    The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    ~William Authur Ward  (p.258)
5. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
    a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
    all of which have a potential to turn a life around.
    ~Leo Buscaglia (p.298)



教育與學習
1. I Am a Teacher (p.p.7-9)
    (What teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
     ~Karl Menninger)
   啟發、傾聽、教導、學習、影響、改變。
2. Life Lessons from My Students (p.p.78-81)
   (Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
    ~John Cotton Dana)

值得一看的書，
教師的心靈雞湯 。
教育的工作，
如Linda Heffner所說：
A teacher's greatest reward is impacting lives,
knowing that a difference has been made.
讓我們一起投入、精進、深耕，
用愛，
用智慧，
為學生，
為自己，
帶來生命的改變。