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Beg, Borrow and Steal
by Lisa Sempsey and Crystal Pridmore
WORKBOOK / PLANNER · TEACHER-FACING
Purpose
Build a practical teaching repertoire by learning from experienced educators, adapting strong ideas, and organizing what you learn so you can find and use it again.
AT A GLANCE
Best for — Beginning teachers and educators who are building their personal collection of lessons, activities, and teaching strategies.
Focus — Professional learning · Repertoire building · Planning · Reflection
You’ll need — A workshop, mentor, colleague, resource, or teaching idea you want to learn from.
Connections — Teacher development
WHY CHOOSE THIS RESOURCE?
You don’t have to invent everything you teach. Beg, Borrow and Steal helps you learn intentionally from other educators: observe strong teaching, ask questions about the thinking behind it, adapt ideas for your own students, use excellent shared lessons as they were designed when appropriate, and give credit to the people whose work helps you grow.
The workbook helps turn all those good ideas collected from workshops, mentors, and colleagues into a usable personal teaching library rather than a stack of notes you never look at again.
NEED A PLACE TO START?
Start with one idea worth keeping.
Think about a lesson, activity, or teaching strategy you've recently seen that made you think, I want to try that.
Don't worry about building your whole curriculum. Capture that one idea, identify what it helps you accomplish, record where it came from, and decide what—if anything—you need to change for your students.
Then try it. Your teaching repertoire grows one useful idea at a time.
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