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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Reviews 
About the author

TEACHER THINKING
Beliefs
Metaphors
Values
Meaning

EDUCATION MYTHS
Curriculum 
Knowledge
Teaching
Learning

ARTICLES

WORKSHOPS  

MEDIA 

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Teacher's Mind Resources is an ongoing effort by Judy Yero, the author of Teaching in Mind: How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education. 

My personal mission, and the goals of the organization and this website include:

• Helping teachers to recognize their power and accept their responsibility to transform education.

• Offering new perspectives on many aspects of the educational process and encouraging teachers to reassess the conventional wisdom of education in the light of new research and their own experience.

• Providing training and support for teachers, administrators, and other school leaders who wish to shift the focus of education from knowledge to people; from groups to individuals; and from an obsession with "fixing" what is broken to building on what already works.

Teacher's Mind Resources will work to achieve these goals through books, reports, and articles that point out some of the hidden, but influential factors in the language and actions of educational decision makers and reformers. Workshops will be available for educators who wish to become more self-reflective and to understand how their beliefs and values, and those of the school culture, profoundly influence the educational process and the experience of students.

I think of myself as an education analyst rather than a critic. There are many things that education in general and teachers in particular do very well. But until each and every student is given the opportunity and environment to grow and develop to his or her fullest potential, there is room for improvement. By venturing into largely unexplored regions of the educational landscape, I hope to offer new insights into how that improvement may occur. 

That territory includes the powerful influence of the language of education and the thinking of individual teachers—long neglected because it is "subjective" and doesn't easily lend itself to the hard data and clear-cut conclusions of scientific research. 

In the words of educational theorist Marion Brady, 

"Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted...In our schools, we teach what we think is important, and we think it is important because it is what we were taught. No one has bothered to point to the circularity of this type of thinking. What gets taught, with minor variations, is what was taught last year... The decades roll on, without even the suggestion that the whole matter should be rethought." (1)

Teacher's Mind Resources will offer ideas on how to begin "rethinking the whole matter" with the goal of developing a reflective educational culture—a true learning organization. We owe our students nothing less!

References

1 Brady, M. (1996) Educating for Life As It Is Lived. The Educational Forum, Vol. 60, 249-255.