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Teachers Who Change Lives

By: Andrew Metcalfe, Ann Game

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Paperback | 29 August 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Teachers Who Change Lives concerns outstanding teachers, and the qualities that enable them to help change students lives for the better. It focuses on learning and teaching as a relationship.

Most of us can recall teachers who changed our lives, teachers who arrived to teach us what we needed to know just when we needed to know it. The amazing thing about such people is they change us so that we become ourselves. It's as if they have a magical ability to know us better than we know ourselves. How does this happen? Where does the power of great teaching come from?

In Teachers Who Change Lives, leading Australian educationists Andrew Metcalfe and Ann Game cast new light on the processes of teaching and learning. The authors argue that outstanding teachers do not mould students by pushing them towards the achievement of externally based measurements of excellence (the 'perfect TER score or bust' model), but instead encourage them to reach their full potential by teaching them to follow their passions and interests. In interviews, some of Australia's most respected names-including Stephanie Alexander, Dawn Casey, Greg Chappell, Betty Churcher, Helen Garner, Shane Gould and Michael Kirby-reveal the significant classroom experiences and influential teachers that helped shape their futures.

A book for parents of school-age children, for teachers and those interested in becoming teachers, and for all those who remember how teachers changed their lives.

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
The Students and Teachers	p. xviii
Changing Lives without Aiming to	p. 1
Interlude: Your Very Nature	p. 11
Seeing Potential in Students	p. 13
Interlude: Education as Unfolding	p. 33
Teaching as a Form of Love	p. 35
Interlude: Loving Your Subject	p. 57
A Passion for Learning	p. 59
Interlude: Lessons Not Forgotten	p. 71
The Importance of Authority	p. 73
Interlude: A Gift for Life	p. 93
The Process of Learning	p. 95
Interlude: Changing Thinking, Changing Bodies	p. 109
Dialogue as an Opening of the Mind	p. 111
Interlude: Talking Directly to Students	p. 129
Playing Your Part	p. 131
Interlude: The Ability to Reflect	p. 147
A Full Life	p. 149
References	p. 164
Index	p. 165
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Teachers Who Change Lives

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Teachers Who Change Lives concerns outstanding teachers, and the qualities that enable them to help change students lives for the better. It focuses on learning and teaching as a relationship.

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