Teaching, Making a Difference: The Art of Helping Others Help Themselves

Teachers may retire from their schools, but they never retire from teaching. Teaching, Making a Difference includes two goals. The first is to give guidance to teachers contemplating retirement while helping them to maintain realistic standards for their students. The second goal is to present a multitude of options for just-retired teachers to enjoy their well-earned retirement while still using their knowledge and experience to benefit their communities. Teachers will learn techniques that they can incorporate into their lesson plans as they continue to teach, and upon retiring, they will learn how to develop their own “lesson plan” to take care of themselves and to participate in their communities.

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