Teaching Better Day By Day eBook

A low-tech, highly-practical planner everyone wishes forand every teacher needs

Renowned educator Jim Burke discovered that teaching at the top of your game requires low-tech, low-profile moments for picking up a pen, reflecting, and looking ahead. Maybe thats why every page of this remarkable planner feels handcrafted with Jims wisdom on managing your time, your classes, and your life. Youll find professional development ideas to nudge you toward new practices as well as the tried and true with yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily planning pages for setting your own personal and professional goals. Highlights include:

• Fill-in pages for long-range dreaming, annual unit envisioning, and short-term planning, as well as downloadable pages for daily ideas and improvisation based on students needs
• Personal Professional Development (PPD) pages and essential readings to help you focus every month on pressing issues and timeless pedagogy about teaching and learning
• Space to help you set personal goals and reflect on them throughout the year
• Tools to help you plan instructional time and focus on students who need extra support

A planner is never about the lessons--its always about the life. Its about the life and growth of teachers and students and the robust, happy development of ones days. And theres no better educator than Jim Burke to remind us of that in Teaching Better Day by Day.