An Instructor’s Guide to Educating with Kindness and Leading with Love
A Workbook of Sustainable Support Practices for Educators, Parents, and Facilitators
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You may be faced with overwhelm when you look at your material and the amount of time you have to teach it. Overwhelm stems from a misdirected belief that the teacher and the student are separate, and that the teacher, a “Carrier” of knowledge, somehow must relieve themselves of this knowledge and be 100% confident their students can “handle and cope” with the “burden” of what the knowledge and wisdom can catalyze for so many. Rather than viewing the teacher as someone who speaks to a room of empty-headed minds, begin from an agreement with your students that you will trust in their abilities to easily understand the material, provided that you guide them in remembering it efficiently and easily. We are a key for our students. The way we guide and facilitate learning lays the foundation for how they will learn in their future. When you walk into your classroom, you, like your students, are vulnerable, open, human, and magnificent in your ability to learn, create, and understand. Do not walk into a room of emptiness and lack, where the onus falls on you to do all the work; walk into a room of full, engaging, and intelligent geniuses who have simply misplaced, for a moment, what you are about to share with them. Plant seeds, and provide the conditions for those seeds to germinate and grow.
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About the Book
An Instructor's Guide is both a philosophy text and personal workbook for anyone who identifies themselves as a teacher, educator, facilitator, caregiver, or parent who wants support in sustaining, maintaining, or improving their teaching practice. Its kindness and love based mindfulness approach to sustainable teaching focuses on exploring and resolving the limitations we have about teaching and learning to support students, and ourselves, in the long-term. Written to open you up to your teaching potential through self- reflection, mindfulness, some teaching stories, breath exercises, and kindness practices, this workbook and its exercises are for in person and remote teaching environments.
About the Author
Amy Grimes is an educator and healer who works with students to help them understand how they learn, so they can experience greater success. Other work by Amy includes, "Book of Daniel: Love Songs for the Pandemic" an e-chapbook of poetry. Amy received her master's in medieval and modern languages from the University of Oxford, Christ Church, and wrote her dissertation on gender, subjectivity, and identity in Italian island authors' writing. She has taught in classrooms world-wide with students from all walks of life and continues to find the human mind to be the most interesting thing there is. She resides with her family on Hawai'i Island.