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Review: Classroom Habitude by Angela Maeirs

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Angela Maiers was kind enough to share a copy of Classroom Habitudes with me. It’s her book on how to teach 21st Century learning habits and attitudes, exactly as described on the cover.
Book cover
So, why is a small business site reviewing a book that, on first glance, appears to be for teachers?

  1. Isn’t part of your business to help your customers, employees, and prospects to learn?
  2. Could you benefit from improving your own ability to learn?
  3. Didn’t you know I come from a long line of teachers? (I had to throw that in.) 

It is an excellent book to help you focus your own personal growth, or to help you as a teacher, educator, or instructor.

The focus is not on developing particular skills. It is on gaining the habits and attitudes that carry you through to learn any new skill. What are the Habitudes?

  1. Imagination
  2. Curiosity
  3. Perseverance (my personal fave)
  4. Self Awareness
  5. Courage
  6. Adaptability

If you spent each month focusing on one of those habitudes, imagine how much you would grow as an effective small business person in half a year. You might grow into being a whole different person.

I said that I come from a long line of teachers, but I don’t hold an educational degree or certificate of any kind. I only teach workshops, short classes, things like that. But I truly enjoyed this book. Her classroom dialogues, once I got past the “boys and girls” intro, were excellent at leading my thinking about these subjects. There is plenty of relevance for life-long learners, as well as classroom teachers.

Thank you, Angela, for sharing your Habitudes with me.

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About Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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  2. Becky-
    Thank you so much for sharing the Habitudes with your readers. You make a great point that learning is learning – no matter how old you are. The Habitudes are the tools necessary to make learning happen whether in school or out.

    I would be so thrilled to hear how you and your readers adapt the lessons for the workplace. Who knows…maybe we will have a new book- “Business Habitudes???”.

    Thanks for spreading the spirit and the passion for life- long learning!

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