Achieving Excellence in the Classroom: What Makes a Teacher Great?

This book contains a panacea of ideas relevant to engage both young and adult learners in a classroom, workshop or course setting. Teaching strategies, classroom management strategies and motivational empowerment tools are all shared in one book designed to captivate the reader, inform the reader and suggest creative ways to enable participants not only to enjoy the subject matter but to utilize what they learn to specifically apply it to their own lives for personal as well as professional growth. The author takes the reader on a powerful journey through research, poetry, personal stories and empowerment principles designed purposefully to maintain interest and enable educational personnel, especially teachers, to fully understand the significant value and impact they bring to the educational setting. This book helps the teachers to realize that without their guidance, without their expertise, their knowledge, their wisdom and their experience, many students would not be successful in realizing their dreams, aspirations and goals. Teachers make a powerful difference in the lives of others.