Teaching By Heart, Thomas J. DeLong
Teaching By Heart, Thomas J. DeLong
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Teaching By Heart
One Professor's Journey to Inspire

Author: Thomas J. DeLong

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/12/2020


Synopsis

Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers.

In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the listener inside his own head and heart. He notes that, as teachers, we often focus more on our inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents. He explains why this is so by dissecting and analyzing his own experiences—using himself as a case study.

The book's goal is to help listeners learn about the intricacies of teaching and managing, and to impart lessons about how teachers can create a unique teaching atmosphere. To do this, the author analyzes the process of creating a curriculum, preparing for an eighty-minute class, managing the fifteen minutes before class begins, and evaluating the nature of the teaching experience after the session concludes. Whether you're a university professor, a student, a business leader, or just someone fascinated by teaching, this book will instruct, entertain, and—hopefully—inspire.

Reviews

part memoir part insights about the educational system this book is more about the author's journey and less about the systems and issues and innovative methods of teaching. Most of the time I couldn't associate myself with the book. its a pass for me.......more

Goodreads review by April

Like many other reviewers, I'm just not sure who/what this book is for. It's kind-of memoir and kind-of pedagogical philosophy, but it doesn't quite work as either. There were moments that I felt like what he was saying was solid, but there wasn't anything really NEW about anything. I have a feeling......more