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A Field Guide for New Teachers
Build relationships, clear expectations, and sound instructional judgment together.
Heart-Centered Education is a practical field guide for new teachers navigating the decisions that no lesson plan can fully anticipate.
Read the full descriptionYour first years of teaching should not force you to choose between caring deeply and teaching well.
Heart-Centered Education is a practical field guide for new teachers navigating the decisions that no lesson plan can fully anticipate. How do you engage students, respond to disruption, build relationships, and remain connected to the purpose that brought you into the classroom?
The book brings student engagement, classroom management, instructional choices, reflection, and professional growth into a relational conversation. Examples and reflection prompts connect everyday decisions with attention to the whole learner.
For beginning teachers and the mentors who support them, the emphasis is on developing warmth and competence together. Rather than promising a perfect classroom, these pages invite you to notice more carefully, strengthen professional judgment, and build a sustainable sense of purpose as you learn the work. Care and clear expectations can belong in the same classroom.
Student engagement and classroom management
Instructional decision-making
Real-life examples and practical strategies
Reflection, professional growth, and resilience
New teachers and their mentors.
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Dr. R. C. Titus is an author, researcher, and educator whose work explores whole-person formation, educational psychology, emotional intelligence, and the ways learning shapes who people are becoming. As Director of the SNU Lab School and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Southern Nazarene University, he brings together research, educational practice, and Christian formation to help educators and leaders cultivate environments where people can grow in wisdom, character, belonging, and purpose.
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