The Balanced Teacher Path - How to Teach, Live, and Be Happy

Award-winning teacher offers advice on achieving work-life balance and employing self-care techniques to avoid burnout

About the author

Justin Ashley is an award-winning teacher, motivational speaker, author, and public education advocate from Charlotte, North Carolina, where he began teaching in 2007.
He is also a highly sought-after speaker for professional development. He has been an inspirational keynote presenter for thousands of current and future teachers, creating an atmosphere that bounces back and forth between rapt silence and raucous laughter.
In 2013, he became the only teacher ever to win both North Carolina History Teacher of the Year and North Carolina Social Studies Teacher of the Year in the same year.

Summary

How to Teach Live and Be Happy. It wasnt long after being named North Carolina History Teacher of the year that Justin Ashley started noticing signs of burnout. He knew he needed to make some radical changes in how he handled his work and personal life. In The Balanced Teacher Path, Justin shares his personal story illuminating how easy it is to give your job everything youve got and leave yourself with nothing outside of school and shows new teachers and veterans alike the self-care techniques they can employ to create work-life balance and prevent burnout. With equal parts humour and wisdom, Justin analyses four key aspects of every

Product details

• Authors: Justin Ashley
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781631981012
• ISBN: 978-1-63198-101-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Free Spirit Professional(tm); Free Spirit Professional®; Free Spirit Professional(r)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering