The Heart of a Teacher

1. The things taught are things teacher care about

2. What I care about helps define my selfhood

3. Fabric is stretched

4. Teaching always takes place at the crossroads

5. Opens the heart of the students

6. Life long discovery of self discovery

7. Pamela Ringold Mapping The Courage to Teach Dr. Westfield Fall/2013

8. Educator create safe spaces and trusting relationships in their schools, with their students

9. Enthusiastic

10. Vulnerable in the service of learning

11. Willingness to make available

12. Identity

12.1. Love Learners

12.1.1. Goal 1

12.1.2. Goal 2

12.2. Encourages Students

12.2.1. Session Rule 1

12.2.2. Session Rule 2

12.3. Address Students Fears

12.4. Explores the inner landscape of a teachers life

13. Intergrity

14. Engages in a pradoxical relationship

14.1. The love of teaching is apparent

14.2. Joins self and subject and students in the fabric of life

14.3. Possess a capacity for connectedness

15. Acknowledges the whole of who they are as a persons

16. Identifying and honoring gifts and strengths, and acknowledging limits