1st Edition
Find Your Blindspot in the Classroom Improving Your Effectiveness as a Teacher
Find Your Blindspot in the Classroom offers both an alternative and a complement to standard professional development, instructional coaching and teacher evaluation. Author Anne Bonnycastle reveals 10 common blindspots that can be challenging for teachers, whether you’re in year one or 10. She provides practical strategies to help you find your own blindspot and then shows how you can improve that area by incorporating a professional practice focus.
The book’s unique, no-frills, personalized approach will help you improve your classroom instruction, focusing on the effect that your teaching has on students. The research-supported strategies will help you increase your effectiveness, regardless of the supports available within your school.
Whether you have a mentor or coach guiding you or are using the book on your own, this book will be your trusty guide as you grow on your journey as an educator.
Biography
Dr. Anne Bonnycastle has been a teacher, administrator, department head, and instructional coach in both public and independent schools since 1996. Professional development has been her career-long focus: attending it, delivering it, researching about it. This book culminates a decade of working to understand teacher development.
Anne has an MA in educational psychology and a Doctoral degree in Music Education. She lives in Vancouver with her husband: both are adjusting well to being empty-nesters. When she isn't teaching, you can find Anne cold plunging in the ocean, enjoying too many cups of coffee, or playing piano in a local cocktail bar.
