The Spread the Happiness Approach: Happy Teachers, Happy Classrooms, Better Education

The Spread the Happiness Approach: Happy Teachers, Happy Classrooms, Better Education
Author: Shonette Bason-Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429836279

Both practical and inspiring, this book is designed to empower educators and school leaders to make clear and simple adjustments to their practice for a lasting impact on the happiness and well- being of staff and children and ultimately on academic standards. It includes practical tips and activities to help teachers generate a lasting atmosphere of positivity and happiness in the classroom plus clear strategies to help leaders to embed the Spread the Happiness approach throughout their school and across the curriculum. This book includes detailed case studies, a five-week programme of taster challenges and a section on measuring outcomes and sharing success. The Spread the Happiness approach invites teachers to undertake a 27-day challenge, which encourages problem solving and challenges them to make their immediate workplace happier. It identifies the strengths of adults and children and sets realistic goals to achieve as an individual, as a team and even as a community. This powerful resource will be of great interest to all teachers and school leaders, as well as trainee teachers and students on leadership or early educational courses.

Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms

Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms
Author: Marcia L. Tate
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1952812984

Bestselling author Dr. Marcia L. Tate delivers 12 brain-based principles for avoiding teacher burnout and increasing health and wellness for teachers. These research-backed strategies will help you thrive personally and professionally. Each chapter digs into the benefits of these self-care and stress management tips and offers suggestions for bringing the practice to life in your classroom. Avoid teacher burnout with these self-care tips for teachers and other educators: Understand the root causes and symptoms of educator and teacher stress, overwhelm, and burnout. Learn practical strategies proven to help you live better, live longer, and become a better teacher. Integrate wellness principles and coping strategies into your daily life so you feel rejuvenated and ready to serve others. Translate your wellness to the classroom, creating happy, ready-to-learn students. Maintain a lifestyle of happiness and health for long-term success. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Passion for Your Purpose Chapter 2: Laughter Chapter 3: Optimism Chapter 4: Games Chapter 5: Movement Chapter 6: Music Chapter 7: Calm Surroundings Chapter 8: Close Personal Relationships Chapter 9: Nutrition Chapter 10: Sleep Chapter 11: Spirituality Chapter 12: Purpose Epilogue References and Resources Index

XV International Scientific Conference “INTERAGROMASH 2022”

XV International Scientific Conference “INTERAGROMASH 2022”
Author: Alexey Beskopylny
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 3287
Release: 2023-02-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031214323

The book contains proceedings of the XV International Scientific Conference INTERAGROMASH 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The agro-industrial complex is the most extensive and vital industry. It is rapidly developing by introducing the latest technologies and automating various processes necessary for the functioning of this area. The book is dedicated to engineering technologies of precision farming and agricultural robotics. It includes studies on natural resources variability, sustainable soil management, Agro Big Data, Internet of Things, software and mobile apps for precision agriculture, smart weather for precision agriculture, simulations models and decision support systems, expert systems, DGPS, soil physical and chemical characteristic sensors, machinery, etc. Different types of agricultural robots are presented in the book: autonomous fruit picking robots, farming bots that can seed and water plants, test the soil and remove weeds, completely autonomous robot for ecological and economical ultra-high precision spraying and weeding, harvesting robots with the special vision systems that can “see” fruits and understand whether they're ripe and ready to pick, and others. Also, the book covers advances in agricultural biotechnology in such areas of research as crop production improvement practices, genetic modification, as well as microbial biotechnology in agriculture, etc. The book is aimed for scientists, researchers, and graduate students. It is also useful for representatives of regional authorities, as it gives an idea of existing high-tech solutions for agriculture. The book is written and edited by international researchers, academics, and experts in the corresponding research areas.

Happy Teacher

Happy Teacher
Author: Paul Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546483298

Teaching got you feeling down? Have the stresses of the job made it harder for you to be happy at work? Do you wish you could find the joy you hoped for when you started what you thought would be a long and fulfilling career?Teaching is a rewarding job. It's also exhausting and stressful. Today's teachers face challenges their predecessors never did. High-stakes testing, legislative attacks, and the loss of autonomy in the classroom have made the job harder and less enjoyable. It's challenging to be a happy teacher these days.But you can be one! By applying the latest scientific research on happiness to your job in the classroom, you can be the teacher you always thought you would be. You will look forward to going to work, have more energy when you're there, and be the happy teacher every student wants and deserves.In this book, you will learn:*What makes teachers unhappy at work *What teachers think will make them happy and why they're often wrong*What science says about how teachers can be happier in the classroomBased on the latest research from the field of positive psychology, Happy Teacher will arm you with the knowledge and strategies you need to add a pep to your step and a smile to your face. You'll be happier at school. Your students will be happier in your classroom. And your colleagues will ask you how you did it!

Happy Class

Happy Class
Author: Jenna Sage
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2016-12-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475824858

Happy Class: The Practical Guide to Classroom Management is a teacher’s manual for creating safe and happy classrooms for students and staff. One of the top reasons teachers leave the profession is due to problems with classroom management. This guide provides practical solutions to common classroom concerns. Happy Class will help you to arrange the physical layout of the classroom, positively address challenging behavior, problem solve, meaningfully work with other professionals, and create your own personal and professional happiness. This book is intended for new teachers, experienced teachers, administrators, collaborating professionals, and post-secondary educators. Whether you are struggling with a specific student or just need encouragement or validation this guide will help you to create a Happy Class.

Happiness and Education

Happiness and Education
Author: Nel Noddings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003-07-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521807630

This book explores what we might teach if we take happiness seriously as an aim of education.

Teach Happier

Teach Happier
Author: Sam Rangel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-03-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544941950

Teachers are amazing. They spend their days inspiring, motivating, encouraging and preparing our children for the future. Many times, they go above and beyond their contractual responsibilities to help their students find success, and they do this without asking for special recognition or rewards. They are increasingly asked to do more with less as the demands placed on them grow each year. Still they show up each day and give it their all. That is amazing. Unfortunately, there is a growing number of teachers who are feeling the pressure of this demanding profession, and they are losing that enthusiasm they once had for teaching. That is where Teach Happier can help. Sam Rangel knows firsthand of the demands and frustrations of a school teacher. He taught 22 years in a middle school. His website, SuccessInTheClassroom.com, offers tips and strategies for new and soon-to-be teachers. In Teach Happier, Sam shares 21 practical strategies from his research in the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology that will help teachers invite more happiness into their lives, and as a result find more success and make a greater difference in the lives of their students.

Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms
Author: Timothy D. Walker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1324001267

The best-selling book of easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world’s premier educational system—now available in paperback. Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests evaluating critical-thinking skills in math, science, and reading. That was in 2001; even today, this tiny Nordic nation continues to amaze. How does Finnish education—with short school days, light homework loads, and little standardized testing—produce students who match the PISA scores of other nations with more traditional “work ethic” standards? When Timothy Walker started teaching fifth graders at a Helsinki public school, he began a search for the secrets behind the successes of Finland’s education system. Highlighting specific strategies that support joyful K–12 classrooms and can be integrated with U.S. educational standards, this book, available in paperback for the first time, gathers what he learned and shows how any teacher can implement many of Finland's best practices. A new foreword by the author addresses the urgent questions of teaching, and living, in these pandemic times.

The Radically Happy Classroom

The Radically Happy Classroom
Author: Madison Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781689206648

The world desperately needs more happy classrooms. Education should be empowering, fulfilling, and fun for everyone involved, but all too often the exact opposite is true. Both teachers and students are burning out in the conventional education system. The Radically Happy Classroom offers concrete steps to escape this trap and transform your classroom into a place of joy and growth. It follows The Radically Happy Teacher, building on a healthy teaching mindset with practical actions that teachers can take in their classrooms every day. The four big ideas are useful for teachers of all subjects and ages, and the interactive elements of the book help readers apply these ideas immediately in their own lives. The results are less stress, more happiness, and deeper learning for everyone in the classroom.

Start with Joy

Start with Joy
Author: Katie Egan Cunningham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2019
Genre: Classroom environment
ISBN: 1625312830

"Start with Joy is a guidebook describing ways teachers can make joy and purpose the center of their teaching and students' literacy learning. Organized by seven pillars, based on the science of happiness, this book offers reasons why students' happiness matters now more than ever, providing lessons, strategies, resources, and children's literature suggestions for how to make sure joy and purpose are at the heart of all instruction"--