About the Author
Jessamyn Neuhaus is a professor of US history and popular culture at SUNY Plattsburgh, a scholar of teaching and learning, and a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the author of Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America and show more Housework and Housewives in American Advertising: Married to the Mop. show less
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The practices are awareness (of self and students), preparation (for the anxiety-inducing aspects of teaching), reflection (on one's practice), and support (and getting some whether from peers or from the instructional design / teaching and learning offices at one's college or university). But again, this is not a book of tips and design ideas, but of broad principles.
The message seems to be "it gets better... if you practice these four things", that things are going to be ok, there are no superhuman teachers, that teaching is hard, non-linear, and constantly shifting.
This book seems primarily directed at novices but even I, with about 20 years of teaching under my belt, found things to ponder (further than I have pondered before... see what I did there? Yeah, I'm a GIN).
I have to confess some eyeroll while reading the section on gratitude though.… (more)