Buy my Book: The Feeling of Teaching!
My book The Feeling of Teaching lays out several concepts that can really help teachers (and others!) reframe their frustrating, irritating, maddening experiences with the difficult human beings in their lives. (And, just to be clear, we’re all potentially difficult human beings.) Have a teacher friend who’s feeling overwhelmed by mind-blowing behavior in school? The Feeling of Teaching is for them!
I pack and sign every copy of the book myself!
Reviews
Must-Read for Teachers
Sarah | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I flew through this book. It’s a must-read for educators. It astounds me that for all we have done in/for the field of education, Burris is a true pioneer in the emotional landscape of the classroom.
Alexis
This truly should be a must-read for all educators in the field, and especially a required text for all teacher education programs.
Julie
Thank you for writing this book. It is the best professional development tool I have been exposed to in my 20 years of teaching. I have been silently suffering (not so silently at times) through the emotional work of being everything to everyone and not having a secure sense of self in the classroom. This book is chock-full of nuggets of wisdom and validation. I will continue to refer to it on a regular basis.
Rónadh
[This] book amazed me. Not only did I learn a lot from it in general terms, but it gave me some very strong specific ideas that I can use in my own classroom….[T]he discussions about button-pushing, what it means and how to deal with it…will change the way I teach.
Janneke
I am just loving [this book]: so readable, truly substantial, and what a resource…it is for educators at large, parents, teachers, coaches, counselors, really anyone who interacts with kids on a regular basis.
Joe
[The stories in The Feeling of Teaching] are really well-written….[I]f you’ve been teaching more than a week, I know you’ve had these problems….They’re engaging; they build on concepts one after the other; it’s just so well-written and so well-organized. And it’s unforgettable. It is not like all the other books that you’ve been reading about how to be a teacher. It’s not like them at all.
Carrol
I think it is a really important book for teachers. I think it should be integrated into every student teaching program in the country.
Deb
This was a sheer pleasure to read. The concepts are exciting, the writing powerful. I enjoyed every bit of it and learned a lot – and I’m neither a teacher nor a psychologist!