Author: Dan Clement Lortie Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226493541 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 284
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Reviews the history of teaching in the United States over three hundred years, and describes aspects of recruitment, organization, and logic particular to the profession
Author: Hannah Breece Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307490548 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 339
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When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century. "An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."--The New York Times
Author: William L. Andrews Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195107969 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 234
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With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that represent the best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes a poem and an abolitionist's tra published after a slave named Margaret Garner killed her child to save her from slavery—the very incident Morrison fictionalizes in Beloved.
Author: Otis Kriegel Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing ISBN: 1575426439 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 249
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Not your typical how-to manual for new teachers, this no-nonsense, jargon-free guide offers a wide variety of tools and tactics for getting through every school day with grace and sanity. Covered in glue, glitter, orange juice—or worse? Make a quick change into the spare set of clothes you keep on hand for just this purpose. Butterflies in your stomach before your first-ever Meet the Teacher Night? Keep your cool by writing the agenda on your board—it’ll double as a crib sheet for you. These tips and hundreds more, covering virtually every aspect of teaching, have all been learned the hard way: from real-life classroom experience. Otis Kriegel’s “little black book” will be a treasured resource for teachers who want not only to survive but to thrive in any situation.
Author: William Glasser, M.D. Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062035290 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 196
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"This should be required reading by every school administator, every teacher, every board member and all university faculty involved in the training of teachers. There is no doubt that we need to squeeze all blame, all coerion and all criticism out of any people-related business. Not until we realize that schools are in a people business will we ever be able to make meaningful changes." --Dr. Albert Mamary, former superintendent of schools, Johnson City, New York
Author: D. W. Chisholm Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1609119827 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
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Elizabeth Litzy Howard is the only female lawyer at her Nebraska law firm. While working on a will, she discovers that the beneficiary, Sebastian Bandello, lives in Italy. Litzy encourages Sebastian to come to America to see the valuable ranch he has inherited in western Nebraska. Upon his arrival, they travel out to the ranch. But within the first day, they are met with violent hostility, as shots are fired into the ranch house. As Litzy and Sebastian drive over the property the next day, they are kidnapped, only to be abandoned out on the prairie. As the two trudge across the vast expanse looking for help, they see a campfire, and Sebastian asks for assistance. When the strangers there attack Sebastian, Litzy panics and drives off in their jeep. Certain that Sebastian has been killed, she is threatened by everyone she meets, including the police. Adamant to find Sebastian still alive, Litzy searches for him, and for the reasons behind their attacks, learning that the water source beneath the ranch is more valuable than gold. But Sebastian has had enough. The Italian School Teacher returns home to Italy, where life is not so violent About the Author: D.W.Chisholm lives in Arcata, California. She wrote this book because water is extremely important in the ranch lands of Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Sooner or later, it will become violent. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheItalianSchoolTeacher.htm
Author: James Haskins Publisher: Classics in Progressive Educat ISBN: 9781595583390 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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This classic work, long out of print, recounts the experiences of an African American teacher during his first year working in a Harlem elementary school in the 1960s. Though written more than forty years ago, the diary still rings true to the experience of many beginning teachers today. The New York Times Book Review called Haskins's diary a weapon--cold, blunt, painful and Look magazine said it will be read a generation hence as a classic of one aspect of American education. As Herbert Kohl discusses in his new foreword, Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher is a dramatic reminder of how much educational work there is still to do.
Author: Dave F. Brown Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 324
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Offers middle school teachers practical advice on how they can adapt their instruction methods to meet the needs of diverse students and cope with the emotional challenges they face in the classroom.
Author: Lynne Marie Rominger Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307561372 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 448
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Survive & Thrive in the Classroom From Day One! Teaching high school students is the toughest job you'll ever love. Of course, often it is an acquired love. You must learn to manage your students' education and play parent, counselor, police officer, and mentor. Wow! Now relax—it doesn't have to be overwhelming. With a little preparation you can ensure that you and your students get the most out of your time in the classroom and enjoy it! Full of real-world advice and answers for the complex issues facing today's high school teachers, this down-to-earth and witty book will teach you how to create an atmosphere of cooperation, learning, and respect within your classroom. Use this helpful guide as your personal mentor to achieve a successful and satisfying career as a high school teacher. Earn straight A's your first year by knowing how to: ·Create an attention-grabbing and interactive teaching environment ·Manage difficult students and unique teenage problems ·Communicate, educate, and have fun with your students ·Balance the demands of old-school administrators and pushy parents ·Fairly assess, grade, and evaluate students ·Develop effective and engrossing lesson plans "Straightforward, up-to-date, and engaging. I've seen a lot of resource books for new teachers, and this is the best of the bunch." —Wendell Geis, continuing education administrator, University of California, Davis
Author: John Taylor Gatto Publisher: New Society Publishers ISBN: 1550923013 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
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Author: Dan Clement Lortie
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