The Person in The Profession

Renewing Teacher Vitality through Professional Development

By Sam M. Intrator and Robert Kunzman

This article appeared in a recent issue of The Educational Forum.

A teacher's vocational vitality, or capacity to be vital, present, and deeply connected to hir or her students, is not a fixed, indelible condition, but a state that ebbs and flows with the context and challenges of teaching life. In light of this, an emerging form of professional development programming explicitly devoted to nourishing the inner life or core dimensions of teachers in increasingly important for today's educators.

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