Teachers Learn while Students Teach

Teachers Learn While Students Teach: Inspiring Hearts And Minds is designed to be a practical guide for student teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, and retired teachers in order to use their exceedingly important gifts to help junior high through senior high school students feel more confident about themselves and their learning. Relating to students with different attitudes and dealing with the educational community can also be some other major challenges. This book is very helpful to make teaching a joy, to minimize student behavior issues, and to fulfill one’s professional obligations in the best ways possible. There are three parts to this valuable book. “Getting Your Act Together” contains ideas about thriving personally in order to be that much more successful professionally. “Ready, Set, Action!” gives practical suggestions to create a more positive atmosphere while having students be more responsible for their own studies and grades. The third part is “Suggested Resources” that lists all the cited material.

Steve Sonntag’s love for teaching and inspiring definitely shines. What I liked most is that he not only addresses issues/ideas, but also gives practical advice on how to deal with them, such as how to deal with students’ mood swings and not taking them personally., An amazing chronicle of effective teaching practices. Clearly, Steve Sonntag with his lifetime of educational experience has so much to offer. As a teacher of fifteen years, I discovered the principles found within these pages not only help the freshly initiated teachers, but also us veteran teachers who also could use support and inspiration., This book is as thorough an explanation of the culture and the practice of a public high school that you will find. From the students to the parents to the school staff to the often overlooked little practical items, if there is something that Steve Sonntag has forgotten in all of the ins and outs of school, I don’t know what it is. Every teacher or prospective teacher will find something worthwhile within these pages.

Steve Sonntag has been a mentor teacher, his district’s high school teacher of the year, department chairperson, tutor, university and charter school teacher, family and teacher workshop presenter, Phi Delta Kappa officer, and author during his more than forty years in education. His goals are to encourage, praise, and inspire his readers in order to improve their professional lives in practical, creative ways.