Cleo Lampos

Teaching Diamonds in the Tough: Mining the Potential in Every Student Cleo Lampos 1st edition

Finding the potential in problematic students is challenging regardless of the setting: public school, private school, church clubs, youth groups, or Sunday school. In her book, Teaching Diamonds in the TOUGH, author Cleo Lampos reminds the reader on each page that every teacher possesses the power to shape a child?s future. Through illustrative episodes drawn from her teaching experiences, Lampos recreates the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreaks inherent in education. Undergirded with the belief that even the most incorrigible child can change if given affection, attention, and guidance, the author inspires educators with story, Scripture, quotes, and a suggested action plan. The challenge, according to Lampos, is to look beyond the rough exteriors of a student?s attitude and behavior to their inner needs. Underneath may be a true Diamond in the TOUGH. Bio A self described ?diamond in the tough,? Cleo Lampos is the author of numerous magazine articles and a family friendly book on Alzheimer?s, Grandpa?s Remembering Book. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a Bachelor?s in elementary education and from St. Xavier College-Chicago with a Master?s in special education. Spanning twenty-six years, her public school classroom assignments included self-contained behavior disorders/emotionally disturbed, learning disabilities resource, and regular fourth grade. Currently she helps teach at the girl?s club and children?s services of her local church. When they are not volunteering, she and her husband, Vernon, share their lives with three children and their spouses, along with ten grandchildren.