Teachers Do Make a Difference: The Teacher's Guide to Connecting with Students

Deiro provides powerful strategies teachers can employ to build a healthy student-teacher connection, decrease behavioral problems, and increase social and academic skills.

Deiro (human services, Western Washington U.) has worked as a teacher, counselor, and an education consultant for 34-plus years. She offers this text as a follow up to her lengthier work, Teaching With Heart, for the busy educator who lacks the time or energy to read the longer book, but wants to understand how he or she can make a difference. Using real-life examples and vignettes of six teachers, she demonstrates ways that teachers can develop meaningful, healthy connections with students that promote prosocial, responsible behavior among students—and all without adding more responsibilities to their daily schedules or going beyond the expectations of their job descriptions as teachers. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Judy Deiro, Ph.D., has been a full-time faculty member at Western Washington University since Fall, 1997. In her 34-year career, she has worked as a teacher, counselor, and education consultant. Some of the positions she has occupied include vocational rehabilitation counselor, state women's prison counselor, chemical dependency counselor in an outpatient treatment center, and full-time postsecondary teacher and counselor. As a consultant, she has given numerous presentations nationwide on healthy teaching and parenting strategies for the prevention of high-risk behaviors