<p>Louis Schmier's teaching and learning philosophy has permeated his classroom - and beyond thanks to the internet - to change the lives of students and educators alike. It is a philosophy that challenges educators to treat students as fellow human beings - to go "where students are at," acknowledge, understand, and explore the importance of their feelings, memories, and day-to-day stresses, and convince them of their own abilities and potentials. </p>
<p>Random Thoughts: The Humanity of Teaching is not a typical book on teaching. Louis Schmier calls attention to what he says is the "too often lacking but needed human dimension" of education, and shows that the heart of teaching is to care about each student as a unique, sacred human being. In this collection of 65 inspirational reflections, Louis opens his heart and soul to tell about the tragedies and triumphs that have shaped his philosophy of education and his approach to teaching.</p>

Random Thoughts: The Humanity of Teaching

Louis Schmier

Magna Pub.

Random Thoughts II: Teaching from the Heart

In Random Thoughts II, you'll meet some of Louis Schmier's history students at Valdosta State University, feel with them and celebrate with them as they struggle to see and tap the treasures within. Travel with Louis as he explores his own soul, as well as his own neighborhood, in a continuous search for the heart of each student-and the heart of teaching. In this second volume of 70 Random Thoughts, Louis takes you on a revealing and often difficult personal journey. It's a "long, strange trip" through which he realizes that "the heart of education is an education of the heart." Random Thoughts II is an educational expedition to discover "the bedrock of each student's human potential" - because teaching, Louis writes, "is like mining for gold."

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Atwood Publishing

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Random Thoughts: The Humanity of Teaching

Random Thoughts II: Teaching from the Heart