This Much I Know About Love Over Fear ...
Creating a culture for truly great teaching
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This Much I Know about Love Over Fear is a compelling account of leading a values-driven school where people matter above all else. Weaving autobiography with an account of his experience of headship, John Tomsett explains how, in an increasingly pressurised education system, he creates the conditions in which staff and students can thrive. Too many of our state schools have become scared, soulless places. John Tomsett draws on his extensive experience and knowledge and calls for all those involved in education to find the courage to develop a leadership-wisdom which emphasises love over fear. Creating a truly great school takes patience. Ultimately, truly great schools don't suddenly exist. You grow great teachers first, who, in turn, grow a truly great school. There is a huge fork in the road for head teachers: one route leads to executive headship across a number of schools and the other takes head teachers back into the classroom to be the head teacher. John strongly believes that if the head teacher is not teaching, or engaged in helping others to improve their teaching, in their school, then they are missing the point. The only thing head teachers need obsess themselves with is improving the quality of teaching, both their colleagues' and their own. This Much I Know about Love Over Fear is an authentic personal narrative of teaching, leadership and discovering what really matters. It gets to the heart of what is valuable in education and offers advice for those working in schools.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Gratitudes
- Contents
- A family portrait
- Why this book?
- Chapter 1: Truly great teaching
- Chapter 2: You can always be that little bit better
- Chapter 3: Why I teach
- Chapter 4: Why writing matters
- Chapter 5: The team to lead teacher learning
- Chapter 6: Why we all have to teach
- Chapter 7: Teaching the tough classes
- Chapter 8: Explanations
- Chapter 9: Lessons
- Chapter 10: Creating the conditions for growth
- Chapter 11: Developing a growth mindset environment
- Chapter 12: You canāt just wish to be better ā¦
- Chapter 13: Developing not managing people
- Chapter 14: Itās not about the money
- Chapter 15: Experience
- Chapter 16: Making the time
- Chapter 17: Becoming an evidence-based profession
- Chapter 18: Tending your colleagues
- Endnote: The real enemy of promise
- Select bibliography
- Copyright