Teaching Realistic Optimism - How to Approach Teaching and Learning With Hope

Teaching Realistic Optimism: How to Approach Teaching and Learning with Hope covers topics associated with developing a realistic, optimistic mindset. It shares strategies and ways of thinking to address negativity bias, rumination, catastrophization, and ways of thinking and feeling that sabotage attempts to claim joy out of any situation.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Defining Optimism and the Optimism Continuum: Why is it More than Just Positive Thinking?
Chapter 2. The Negativity Bias: Classroom Manifestations and Ways of Addressing
Chapter 3. Realistic Optimism and Explanatory Styles
Chapter 4. Cycle of Fear and Learned Helplessness
Chapter 5. Realistic Optimism, Hope, Decompression, and Emotional Detachment
Chapter 6. Humor as a Pathway to Hope
Chapter 7. Check your Attitude to Boost Job Satisfaction
References

About the author

Ginna Guiang Myers has been a science educator for almost two decades at opposite ends of the planet. She has been a teacher, mentor, site administrator, district office administrator, and adjunct professor.

Product details

• Authors: Ginna Guiang Myers
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781475856835
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5683-5
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Counseling / General, EDUCATION / Behavioral Management, Organization & management of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Educational administration & organization, Education: care & counselling of students, Counselling of students, EDUCATION / Teaching / General