Not So Cookie Cutter Kids: 25 Reflections of Classroom Observations

Every teacher can develop the courage to let reflective practices reign in their classrooms. Not So Cookie Cutter Kids chronicles Lisa Noel Babbage's the last year of public school teaching using self reflections as a professional practice by which she identified strategies for coping with twenty-five student characteristics. For teachers, coaches, parents, and school administrators, Not So Cookie Cutter Kids is a hybrid, a new genre that is part academic and part biographical. This academic memoir argues the basis for statistically infused self reflection, when used with in the Teacher's Edition Bundle, to improve student performance and reduce teacher burnout. Praise for Not So Cookie Cutter Kids (Not So Cookie Cutter Kids is) A necessary tool that will measure the effectiveness of your teaching style in the classroom on a daily basis. - Erica Billingslea-Sterling, Veteran Teacher.an intuitive perspective of a passionate teacher who finds a way to impact the lives of not so perfect children who enter classrooms every day giving us a clear lens into the challenges and successes teachers of today face.- Dr. Torri J. Barton-Evans, Founder, Fatherless Generation Foundation, Inc.Lisa Noel Babbage has given us a genuine perspective about her classroom experiences as she translates the importance of 'Self-Reflection' as key for balancing the pushes and pulls of teaching. Jacqueline Candia, PhD (ABD), Board Certified Human Services PractitionerSelf Reflection is the hardest kind of introspection. It causes us to be organically real with ourselves. LaDetra White, Founder of Awesome Life MinistriesExcerpt from the introductionThrough fourteen years in the public school arena, years training adults at the corporate level, my tutoring, coaching, and babysitting, my numerous degrees, continuing education and national level training, not even motherhood fully prepared me to reach every child in my class. Reflection has been the one constant that mimics research-in-action better than any pedagogy lecture I endured in college.Human beings, even small ones, are the most dynamic creatures on earth - to extreme degrees, we are varied and diverse and uniformly consistent. Our existence is the most fascinatingly complex permanence ever experienced. Understanding how two or more people interact is one of the greatest topics of investigation. Educators face that challenge every day. They frequently find themselves between two opposing forces, the students and the administration team, and must negotiate the terms between those forces single-handedly. They are bound by contract or morality to be mother, father, counselor, doctor, teacher, preacher, police, and protector to a group of learners that they, in most cases, have had no previous exposure to, no background knowledge, no.…