Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom (The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education)

by Patricia A. Jennings, Daniel J. Siegel M.D. (Foreword by)

Overview

Mindful awareness practices to help teachers recognize and regulate emotional reactivity in their classrooms.

Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their students’ knowledge acquisition. Drawing on basic and applied research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and education, as well as the author’s extensive experience as a mindfulness practitioner, teacher, and scientist, it includes exercises in mindfulness, emotional awareness, movement, listening, and more, all with real-time classroom applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393710892
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/16/2015
Series:	The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	553,870
File size:	683 KB

About the Author

Patricia (Tish) Jennings is a professor of education at the University of Virginia and an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness. Her honors include the 2023 Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of Virginia and the 2018 Cathy Kerr Award for Courageous and Compassionate Scientific Contributions from the Mind & Life Institute. With more than 22 years of experience as a teacher, school director and teacher educator, Jennings has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters, as well as several books. She is the editor of Norton Books in Education’s Social and Emotional Learning Solutions series.
Noted neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute in LA. He is founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.