Idealism and enthusiasm for teaching may have been lost to routine. Teaching may have become merely a job, a living. If so this book may unsettle your outlook: it is concerned with directing and encouraging young teachers to flesh out higher teacher expectations at the core of the teaching practice. Although not a technique book, as such, growing in craft and character while providing effective, high-level academic instruction is integral to its purpose. It is not a purely read-and-heed book so much as a challenge to self-assessment while still a guide with examples to reconsider the practice to which you were originally drawn and to find new life in your original movitations to teach.