The Five Dimensions of Engaged Teaching: A Practical Guide for Educators

Engaged teaching recognizes that educators need to offer more than lesson plans and assessments for students to thrive in the 21st century. Equip your students to be resilient individuals, able to communicate effectively and work with diverse people. The authors contend that students must develop their emotional and social skills as thoroughly as their academic skills, and that teachers must cultivate this growth.

Benefits:

• Gain practical, classroom-ready teaching techniques that are supported by research.
• Discover how to incorporate meaningful classroom practices that support each of the five dimensions.
• Learn to collaborate with fellow educators to optimize engaged teaching outcomes.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Engaged Teaching
Chapter 2: Cultivating an Open Heart
Chapter 3: Engaging the Self-Observer
Chapter 4: Being Present
Chapter 5: Establishing Respectful Boundaries
Chapter 6: Developing Emotional Capacity
Chapter 7: The Learning Journey: Putting It All Together in the Classroom
Chapter 8: The Journey Is the Destination

Laura Weaver teaches courses and workshops, offers presentations, consults with schools, develops resources for educators and parents, and facilitates rites of passage programs for young people.

She supports educators to develop an authentic and intentional teaching practice and to integrate social, emotional, and academic learning into the classroom. A former English teacher, Laura cofounded and directed Bridges, an all-volunteer agency serving the needs of hungry and homeless people in the greater Philadelphia region.

Laura holds a bachelor's degree in literary writing from Trinity College and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Colorado.

Mark Wilding creates and delivers programs that support educators to develop the intrapersonal and interpersonal capacities necessary to sustain an authentic teaching practice; engage students; support social, emotional, and academic learning outcomes; and collaborate effectively with colleagues.

As the former director of Naropa University's center for business and economics, Mark helped launch a graduate degree program in 1995. He teaches graduate courses in authentic leadership and systems thinking at Naropa. Mark has held leadership roles in government, business, nonprofit, and academic organizations.

Mark holds a bachelor's degree from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a master's degree from Naropa University.