Work Life Balance for Music Educators
Real Stories, Real Strategies, Real Solutions
By Paul Kimpton & Ann Kimpton
The Podium Series
$24.95
Adventures With Music, Inc. wants to help educators balance their teaching life with their personal life. This is why Paul and Ann Kimpton wrote Work-Life Balance for Music Educators: Real Stories, Real Strategies, Real Solutions. The authors pose the question, “What if today’s music educators could benefit from the wisdom and experience of a life lived in the music education trenches?” Then, they offer practical recommendations to help music educators achieve a work-life balance that includes the following:
• How to Create Balance between Teaching Music & One’s Personal Life
• How to Understand Interconnections among All Areas of a Teacher’s Life
• How to Deal with Burnout & Other Stresses
In this captivating book filled with work-life balance tips, the Kimptons challenge teachers to improve their life skills and raise the quality of their lives. These challenges include:
• Use Reflective Learning to Solve Problems Both inside & outside the Workplace
• Develop a Process for Dealing with Professional & Personal Issues
• Understand That a Feeling of Restlessness Is Common & Can Be Useful for One’s Growth
• Learn How to Enhance Communication Skills to Solve Issues at Work & at Home
• Recognize That Professional & Personal Lives Intersect & Can Affect One Another
• Expand Knowledge beyond One’s Area of Expertise
• Find Ways to Maintain or Revitalize Life Both at Home & at Work
Full of ideas for personal reflection and written in workbook form, Work-Life Balance for Music Educators encourages teachers to reflect upon their own professional journey to live a meaningful life, to consider what is truly important, and to set benchmarks for the future. The stories threaded throughout this book will be familiar to all professionals, regardless of their career choice, and illuminate ways of adapting to a continuously evolving work environment and changing personal relationships.
Contact us today to help you better balance your work life as a music educator with your personal life. We proudly serve customers throughout the United States and Canada.
