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Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy KidderISBN 0380710897 (0-380-71089-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among Schoolchildren'Book summary:Brimming with the exuberance and innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate dedication to the children in her classroom.#Houghton Mifflin. (Nonfiction) [via]
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553213164 (0-553-21316-4)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Windy Poplars'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne Shirley's love for Gilbert Blythe grows during her three years as a high-school principal. [via]
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- Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0808516965 (0-8085-1696-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0553243977 (0-553-24397-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0553480650 (0-553-48065-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0771061641 (0-7710-6164-1)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd - Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0448025485 (0-448-02548-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0553213164 (0-553-21316-4)
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- Anne of Windy Poplars: ISBN 0808516965 (0-8085-1696-5)
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The Art of Teachingby Jay PariniISBN 0195169697 (0-19-516969-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Teaching'Book summary:Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft.
Here is a godsend for instructors of all levels, offering valuable insight into the many challenges that educators face, from establishing a persona in the classroom, to fostering relationships with students, to balancing teaching load with academic writing and research. Insight abounds. Parini shows, for instance, that there is nothing natural about teaching. The classroom is a form of theater, and the teacher must play various roles. A good teacher may look natural, but that's the product of endless practice. The book also considers such topics as the manner of dress that teachers adopt (and what this says about them as teachers), the delicate question of politics in the classroom, the untapped value of emeritus professors, and the vital importance of a settled, disciplined life for a teacher and a writer. Parini grounds all of this in personal stories of his own career in the academy, tracing his path from unfocused student--a self-confessed "tough nut to crack"--to passionate writer, scholar, and teacher, one who frankly admits making many mistakes over the years.
Every year, thousands of newly minted college teachers embark on their careers, most with scant training in their chosen profession. The Art of Teaching is a perfect book for these young educators as well as anyone who wants to learn more about this difficult but rewarding profession. [via]More editions of The Art of Teaching:
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Bloomin Newman's Secret Recipes for Great Gardeningby George NewmanISBN 0965386961 (0-9653869-6-1)
Hardcover, Castle Pacific Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloomin Newman's Secret Recipes for Great Gardening'Book summary:George Bloomin Newman has been a fixture on Washington DC-area gardening shows for years. Now the host of his own syndicated gardening show, Bloomin is seen worldwide every weekend by millions of viewersor maybe billions (the numbers arent in yet)!
Bloomins irreverent brand of practical gardening advice is refreshing and on-target. Forget all the advice youve been given by experts who havent actually worked in the field. Soak up Bloomins expertise and have the garden youve always wanted, plus have fun getting there! As Bloomins company logo says, Lifes a GardenDig It! [via]
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Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachersby K. Patricia Cross, Thomas A. AngeloISBN 1555425003 (1-55542-500-3)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers'Book summary:This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels how-to advise on classroom assessment, including:
- What classroom assessment entails and how it works.
- How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects.
- Twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects.
- Fifty classroom assessment techniques
- Step-by-step procedures for administering the techniques
- Practical advice on how to analyze your data
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Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievementby Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, Jane E. Pollock, AscdISBN 0131195034 (0-13-119503-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-based Strategies For Increasing Student Achievement'Book summary:What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers. Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock have examined decades of research findings to distill the results into nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning:
* Identifying similarities and differences.
* Summarizing and note taking.
* Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.
* Homework and practice.
* Nonlinguistic representations.
* Cooperative learning.
* Setting objectives and providing feedback.
* Generating and testing hypotheses.
* Questions, cues, and advance organizers.This list is not new. But what is surprising is finding out what a big difference it makes, for example, when students learn how to take good notes, work in groups, and use graphic organizers. The authors provide statistical effect sizes and show how these translate into percentile gains for students, for each strategy. And each chapter presents extended classroom examples of teachers and students in action; models of successful instruction; and many "frames," rubrics, organizers, and charts to help teachers plan and implement the strategies. [via]
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- Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement: ISBN 0871205041 (0-87120-504-1)
Softcover, Assn for Supervision & Curriculum - Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-based Strategies For Increasing Student Achievement: ISBN 0131195034 (0-13-119503-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
- Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement: ISBN 0871205041 (0-87120-504-1)
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Av... [via]
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Lifeby Parker J. PalmerISBN 0787910589 (0-7879-1058-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life'Book summary:As a spiritually inspirational book for teachers, The Courage to Teach is one of the best. The premise is concise and unarguable: good teaching comes from the identity and the integrity of the teacher. Teachers are encouraged to turn their inquiring minds inward--developing a deeper understanding of what it means to fulfill the spiritual calling of teaching. Good teachers share one trait, says author Parker Palmer, they are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves. The connections made by good teachers are held not in their methods but in their hearts--the place where intellect and emotion and spirit and will converge in the human self. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schoolingby John Taylor GattoISBN 0865714487 (0-86571-448-7)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling'Book summary:Strong words from the New York State Teacher of the Year! Twenty-six years of award-winning teaching have led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental school does little but teach young people to follow orders. Dumbing Us Down offers a radical critique of public schooling, and suggests a guerilla curriculum of daily involvement in our communities. [via]
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- Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 086571231X (0-86571-231-X)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 0865712301 (0-86571-230-1)
Hardcover, New Society Pub - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 086571519X (0-86571-519-X)
Hardcover, New Society Pub - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 0865714487 (0-86571-448-7)
Softcover, New Society Pub
- Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: ISBN 086571231X (0-86571-231-X)
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Yearby Esme Raji CodellISBN 1565122798 (1-56512-279-8)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year'Book summary:Esmé Raji Codell has written a funny, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. Her inner-city Chicago elementary school fades to black as the lunch lady strikes an arabesque or a struggling student performs the dance of the dying swan, all set to her interior soundtrack. (Tina Turner's "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" echoes whenever her idea-stealing, dimwitted principal harangues her.) She's a rash, petite, white lady who roller-skates through the halls and insists that her fifth-graders call her "Madame Esmé." But it's not all fun and games: she introduces us to children who fling their desks and apologize in tears, and at one point, after reporting a disruptive student to her mother, who subsequently thrashes the young girl, she dry heaves into her classroom's trash can.
Codell's 24-year-old voice is loud and clear ("Serious gross out," she writes after the scorned principal hugs her), though, on the principle that kids say the darnedest things, she often simply repeats their comments for comic effect. She's got sass, maybe too much self-confidence at times, and though there's no deep introspection in Educating Esmé, you'll be convinced her 10-year-old charges emerge the better for knowing her. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroomby John C. BeanISBN 0787902039 (0-7879-0203-9)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom'Book summary:A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. Engaging Ideas:
- Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses.
- Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking.
- Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities.
- Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.
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The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Professionby Jim Burke, Sam M. IntratorISBN 0325005389 (0-325-00538-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession'Book summary:"Sometimes, English asks us to juggle so much so fast that teachers wonder how they can possibly do it all, let alone do it well". Jim Burke shows us how with this guide to teaching the entire English curriculum - covering everything from basic reading and writing to digital literacy, media literacy and integrated instruction. Written for the way most teachers read - on the run, in search of a particular solution - this guide is structured for ease of use. Chapters are subdivided; lessons are presented step-by-step; and assessment is integrated throughout. Features include: thorough grounding in the current national English Language Arts standards; virtual companion website to provide additional resources and ongoing support for classroom teachers; examples of how to integrate technology into the curriculum; up-to-the-minute coverage of current and anticipated reforms, including media literacy, digital literacy, service learning, AP classes, and more; and an extensive appendix, featuring sample letters, rubrics, guides, checklists, planners and much more. [via]
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Essential 55: An Award-Winning Teacher's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Childby Ron ClarkISBN 1401300014 (1-4013-0001-4)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Students in Every Child'More editions of Essential 55: An Award-Winning Teacher's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child:
- Essential 55: An Award-Winning Teacher's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child: ISBN 0786888164 (0-7868-8816-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books - The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Students in Every Child: ISBN 1401300014 (1-4013-0001-4)
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- Essential 55: An Award-Winning Teacher's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child: ISBN 0786888164 (0-7868-8816-4)
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The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacherby Harry K. WongISBN 0962936006 (0-9629360-0-6)
Softcover, Harry K Wong Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher'Book summary:Used by new and veteran teachers, college instructors, and administrators, this is a beautifully designed book on classroom management, student achievement, and teacher effectiveness. Color graphics. [via]
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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Themby Erin Gruwell, Freedom WritersISBN 038549422X (0-385-49422-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them'Book summary:Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of unteachable, at-risk students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaustonly to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlatas Diary: A Childs Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the Freedom Writers in homage to the civil rights activists The Freedom Riders.
With funds raised by a Read-a-thon for Tolerance, they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwells students were the real heroes. Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognitionappearances on Prime Time Live and All Things Considered, coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Rileyand educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college.
With powerful entries from the students own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.
The authors proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers college tuition. Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers. [via]More editions of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them:
Horace's Compromiseby Theodore R. SizerISBN 0395755352 (0-395-75535-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High Schoolby Theodore R. SizerISBN 0618516069 (0-618-51606-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School'Book summary:First published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses the encouraging movements afoot today for better schools, smaller classes, and fully educated students. Yet, while much has changed for the better in the classroom, much remains the same: rushed classes, mindless tests, overworked teachers. Sizer's insistence that we do more than just compromise for our children's educational futures resonates just as strongly today as it did two decades ago.[via]More editions of Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School:
- Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School: ISBN 0395377536 (0-395-37753-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School: ISBN 039561158X (0-395-61158-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School the First Report from a Study of High Schools, Co-Sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Commission on Educational Issues of the National Association...: ISBN 0395344239 (0-395-34423-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School: ISBN 0618516069 (0-618-51606-9)
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- Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School: ISBN 0395377536 (0-395-37753-6)
I Am A Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, And Their World Of Storiesby Sam SwopeISBN 0805078517 (0-8050-7851-7)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am A Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, And Their World Of Stories'Book summary:A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive[via]
A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class for three years, teaching them to write stories and poems. Almost all were new Americans (his class included students fom twenty-one countries) and Swope was drawn deep into their real and imaginary lives, their problems, hopes, and fears. I Am a Pencil is the story of his years with this very special group of students. It is as funny, warm, heartbreaking, and hopeful as the children themselves.
Swope follows his colorful troop of resilient writers from grades three to five, coaxing out their stories, watching talents blossom, explode, and sometimes fizzle, holding his breath as the kids' families brave new lives in a strange big city. We meet Susie (whose mom was a Taoist priestess), Alex (who cannot seem to tell the truth), and Noelia (a wacky Dominican chatterbox). All of the children have big dreams. Some have big problems: Salvador, an Ecuadorian boy, must cope with a strict Pentecostal father; Soo Jung mystifies Swope with sudden silences-until he discovers that her mother has left the family. Preparing his students for a world of adult dangers, Swope is astonished by their courage, humanity, but most of all by their strength.More editions of I Am A Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, And Their World Of Stories:
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In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learningby Nancie AtwellISBN 0867093749 (0-86709-374-9)
Softcover, Boynton/Cook Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning'Book summary:Recommended by the Ontario Ministry of Education
Grades 6-10
When first published in 1987, this seminal work was widely hailed for its honest examination of how teachers teach, how students learn, and the gap that lies in between. In depicting her own classroom struggles, Nancie Atwell shook our orthodox assumptions about skill-and-drill-based curriculums and became a pioneer of responsive teaching. Now, in the long awaited second edition, Atwell reflects on the next ten years of her experience, rethinks and clarifies old methods, and demonstrates new, more effective approaches.
The second edition still urges educators to "come out from behind their own big desks" to turn classrooms into workshops where students and teachers create curriculums together. But it also advocates a more activist role for teachers. Atwell writes, "I'm no longer willing to withhold suggestions and directions from my kids when I can help them solve a problem, do something they've never done before, produce stunning writing, and ultimately become more independent of me."
More than 70 percent of the material is new, with six brand-new chapters on genres, evaluation, and the teacher as writer. There are also lists of several hundred minilessons, and scripts and examples for teaching them; new expectations and rules for writing and reading workshops; ideas for teaching conventions; new systems for record keeping; lists of essential books for students and teachers; and forms for keeping track of individual spelling, skills, proofreading, homework, writing, and reading.
The second edition of In the Middle is written in the same engaging style as its predecessor. It reads like a storyone that readers will be pleased to learn has no end. As Atwell muses, "I know my students and I will continue to learn and be changed. I am resignedhappilyto be always beginning for the rest of my life as a teacher."
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In the Middle: Writing, Reading and Learning With Adolescentsby Nancie AtwellISBN 0867091630 (0-86709-163-0)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Middle: Writing, Reading and Learning With Adolescents'Book summary:Binding is Tight; Minor bookshelf wear in cover. This book is eligible for free two-day shipping for Amazon Prime Members. Free Super saver shipping for customers who purchase $25 or more on Amazon. [via]
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The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructorsby Peter G. Filene, Ken BainISBN 0807856037 (0-8078-5603-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors'Book summary:Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses. Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in which the instructor pitches ideas to students to see whether they hit or strike out. Ideally, he says, teaching should resemble a game of Frisbee in which the teacher invites students to catch ideas and pass them on. Rather than prescribe a single model for success, Filene examines the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical strategies, inviting new teachers to make choices based on their own personalities, values, and goals. Filene tackles everything from syllabus writing and lecture planning to class discussions, grading, and teacher-student interactions outside the classroom. The book's down-to-earth, accessible style makes it appropriate for new teachers in all fields. Instructors in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences will all welcome its invaluable tips for successful teaching and learning. [via]
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Lives on the Boundaryby Mike RoseISBN 0143035460 (0-14-303546-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives on the Boundary'Book summary:[via]Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficientthese are the stigmas that define Americas educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail, Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate problem students into the world of language, literature, and written expression. This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to re-examine their assumptions about the capacities of a wide range of students.
Already a classic, Lives on the Boundary offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with Americas future.
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Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educational Underclassby Mike RoseISBN 0140124039 (0-14-012403-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underpreparedby Mike RoseISBN 0029268214 (0-02-926821-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives on the Boundary : The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared'Book summary:Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda. [via]
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Lo Es: Una Memoriaby Frank McCourtISBN 8495354446 (84-95354-44-6)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lo Es: Una Memoria'Book summary:The Spanish edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, TIS is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes, and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University-- which admitted him on a trial basis, though he had no high school diploma-- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight, and still has today. And TIS is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as ANGELA'S ASHES. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. TIS blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more. [via]
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Mckeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research And Theory for College And University Teachersby Wilbert J. McKeachie, Marilla SvinickiISBN 0618515569 (0-618-51556-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mckeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research And Theory for College And University Teachers'Book summary:McKeachie's Teaching Tips is a handbook designed to provide helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of teaching at the university level, and those that pop up in trying to maximize learning for every student. The suggested strategies are supported by research and are grounded in enough theory to enable teachers to adapt them to their own situations. The author does not suggest a "set of recipes" to be followed mechanically, but gives teachers the tools they need to deal with the ever changing dynamics of teaching and learning. [via]
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McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachersby Graham Gibbs, Wilbert J. McKeachieISBN 0395903459 (0-395-90345-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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About This Edition
From the Publisher
New Features
- A new chapter on feedback and assessment provides recommendations on how to improve the quality of teacher feedback comments, and discusses ways of ensuring that these comments have maximum impact on learning.
- Testing chapters have been condensed into one streamlined chapter, as have the technology chapters, allowing the book to maintain its handy pocket-sized length while incorporating new information.
- All of the chapters have been updated to include new developments in technologies and instructional strategies that have become more prominent since the last edition.
Additional Features
- Guest-authored chapters offer advice and instruction from renowned educators, including Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli on writing, Jane Halonen on teaching thinking, and Brian P. Coppola on laboratory instruction.
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On Subbing: The First Four Yearsby DaveISBN 097269675X (0-9726967-5-X)
Softcover, Microcosm Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Subbing: The First Four Years'Book summary:Dave Roche's first book contains his tales of woe from working as an substitute education assistant in Portland's school system. He helps kids who can't function in normal classrooms focus on their work and keeps kids from fighting while they tease him or adorably flirt with him. It's a real heartwarming ticket to putting a smile on your face or developing a good feeling to turn your day around. Contains illustrations from Clutch McBastard, Nicole Georges, Keith Rosson, Nate Beaty, Shawn Granton, and Aaron Renier. It's a rewritten "best of" collection from issues #1-4 (The stuff Dave isn't too embarrassed about) plus his second to last year of Subbing. Third Edition has new epilogue, new jokes, and new content![via]More editions of On Subbing: The First Four Years:
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Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroomby Lisa DelpitISBN 1595580743 (1-59558-074-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom'Book summary:By the year 2000, nearly 40 percent of the children in America's classrooms will be African American, Hispanic, Asian American, or Native American, yet most of those children's teachers will be white. In a radical and piercing analysis of what is going on in American classrooms today, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit suggests that many of the academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication as schools and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics of inequality plaguing our system. Winner of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, the American Education Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, and one of Teacher Magazine's Great Books of 1995. Delpit is also a contributor to Racism Explained to My Daughter (New Press: June 1999). [via]
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Pedagogy of the Oppressedby Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman RamosISBN 0826412769 (0-8264-1276-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'Book summary:Mild underlining, highlighting, brackets. Minimal shelfwear. [via]
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The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teachby Robin Behn, Chase TwichellISBN 006273024X (0-06-273024-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 081297106X (0-8129-7106-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Wordby Linda ChristensenISBN 0942961250 (0-942961-25-0)
Softcover, Rethinking Schools Ltd
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The Seven Laws of Teachingby John M. GregoryISBN 0801064961 (0-8010-6496-1)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroomby Stephen D. BrookfieldISBN 1555422675 (1-55542-267-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom'Book summary:In this second edition of the book that has become a classic in the field, award-winning author Stephen D. Brookfield offers inspiration and down-to-earth advice to new and seasoned teachers. The Skillful Teacher is a comprehensive guide that shows how to thrive on the unpredictability and diversity of classroom life and includes insights developed from the hundreds of workshops conducted by the author. This new edition also reflects the many changes that have come about in the decade since the book was first published and includes new chapters that deal with emerging topics such as classroom diversity and teaching in online learning environments. [via]
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Teacherby Sylvia Ashton-WarnerISBN 0671617680 (0-671-61768-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teacher'Book summary:* Holographic paper case
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Teacher Man: A Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0743243781 (0-7432-4378-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teacher Man: A Memoir'Book summary:For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried to present a consistent image of composure and self-confidence, yet he regularly felt insecure, inadequate, and unfocused. After much trial and error, he eventually discovered what was in front of him (or rather, behind him) all along--his own experience. "My life saved my life," he writes. "My students didn't know there was a man up there escaping a cocoon of Irish history and Catholicism, leaving bits of that cocoon everywhere." At the beginning of his career it had never occurred to him that his own dismal upbringing in the slums of Limerick could be turned into a valuable lesson plan. Indeed, his formal training emphasized the opposite. Principals and department heads lectured him to never share anything personal. He was instructed to arouse fear and awe, to be stern, to be impossible to please--but he couldn't do it. McCourt was too likable, too interested in the students' lives, and too willing to reveal himself for their benefit as well as his own. He was a kindred spirit with more questions than answers: "Look at me: wandering late bloomer, floundering old fart, discovering in my forties what my students knew in their teens."
As he did so adroitly in his previous memoirs, Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, McCourt manages to uncover humor in nearly everything. He writes about hilarious misfires, as when he suggested (during his teacher's exam) that the students write a suicide note, as well as unorthodox assignments that turned into epiphanies for both teacher and students. A dazzling writer with a unique and compelling voice, McCourt describes the dignity and difficulties of a largely thankless profession with incisive, self-deprecating wit and uncommon perception. It may have taken him three decades to figure out how to be an effective teacher, but he ultimately saved his most valuable lesson for himself: how to be his own man. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
Teaching As a Subversive Activityby Neil PostmanISBN 0385290098 (0-385-29009-8)
Softcover, Delacorte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching As a Subversive Activity'Book summary:A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. [via]
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Teaching Grammar in Contextby Constance WeaverISBN 0867093757 (0-86709-375-7)
Softcover, Boynton/Cook Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching Grammar in Context'Book summary:More than fifteen years ago, Constance Weaver's Grammar for Teachers (NCTE, 1979) broke new ground by responding to widespread concern about the place of grammar in the curriculum. Suggesting that teachers need to know key aspects of grammar in order to teach writing more effectively, Weaver also argued that students need to be guided in learning and applying grammatical concepts as they revise and edit their writing. Attention to sentence structure and mechanics during the process of writing would result in better products.
With Teaching Grammar in Context, Weaver extends her philosophy by offering teachers a rationale and practical ideas for teaching grammar not in isolation but in the context of writing. She begins by introducing some common meanings of "grammar" and provides a historical overview of traditional reasons for teaching grammar as a school subject. After examining those reasons, she questions them, citing decades of research which suggests that grammar taught in isolation has little, if any, effect on most students' writing.
To lay the groundwork for a more effective approach, Weaver considers how preschoolers learn the basic structures of their native language and how second-language grammar is acquired. She goes on to suggest a research-based perspective on the concept of error and on the writing "errors" our students make, concluding with practical alternatives to what Lois Rosen has dubbed "the error hunt." Equally useful is Weaver's examination of the aspects of grammar on which we might focus as we guide our students in writing and revising sentences and in editing selected pieces. Her final chapter addresses the teaching of grammar from the perspective of learning theory.
The appendix includes numerous sample lessons from Weaver's own teaching, illustrating the five broad topics suggested in the text:
- teaching concepts of subject, verb, clause, sentence, and related editing concepts
- teaching style through sentence combining and generating
- teaching sentence sense and style through manipulation of syntactic elements
- teaching the power of dialects and dialects of power
- teaching punctuation and mechanics for convention, clarity, and style.
Teaching Grammar in Context fills a long-standing gap in the literature on teaching writing. It will prove invaluable to all practicing and preservice teachers, especially those at the middle and high school levels, where grammar is taught most intensively.
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Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachersby McKeachieISBN 0669194344 (0-669-19434-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Teaching To Change Lives: Seven Laws Of The Teacherby Howard G. HendricksISBN 1590521382 (1-59052-138-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching To Change Lives: Seven Laws Of The Teacher'Book summary:One of the most effective and influential Christian teachers of this century reveals how all teachers -- from parents to Sunday school leaders, from pastors to professors -- can make the most of their priceless opportunity to inspire, to instruct, and to permanently impact lives for the kingdom of God. Based on seven proven, easy-to-grasp laws any teacher can apply, Howard Hendricks's classic teaching manual is a must-read for anyone who wants to teach with power and passion, excitement and excellence. [via]
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Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedomby Bell HooksISBN 0415908086 (0-415-90808-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom'Book summary:"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire
In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.
bell hooks speakes to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?
Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.
"To educate is the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching anyone can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.
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Tis: A Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0684864495 (0-684-86449-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: ''Tis: A Memoir'Book summary:'Tis a blessing that the author narrates his own work. McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York. Like all good storytellers, McCourt has good stories to tell; 'Tis pulses with grim adversity and quiet triumphs--character-shaping moments that gain the listener's empathy. What makes McCourt a great storyteller is his ability to give these moments just the right amount of humor and perspective. His lyrical tones are wise but not weary; he's survived life's challenges to tell his tale. And while it may be trite to credit McCourt's verbal skills to his Irish heritage, these war stories were undoubtedly polished amongst friends in the pubs. 'Tis is Grammy material, and a perfect example of how an author's voice can enhance the written word. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Tools for Teachingby Barbara Gross DavisISBN 1555425682 (1-55542-568-2)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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Understanding By Designby Jay McTighe, Grant WigginsISBN 1416600353 (1-4166-0035-3)
Softcover, Assn for Supervision & Curriculum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding By Design'Book summary:The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. The second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member. [via]
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Up the Down Staircaseby Bel KaufmanISBN 0060973617 (0-06-097361-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up the Down Staircase'Book summary:Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.
Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching.
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What the Best College Teachers Doby Ken BainISBN 0674013255 (0-674-01325-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the Best College Teachers Do'Book summary:What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn. In stories both humorous and touching, Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential. What the Best College Teachers Do is a treasure trove of insight and inspiration for first-year teachers and seasoned educators. [via]
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Lo Es: Una Memoriaby Frank McCourt, Alejandro ParejaISBN 0743204239 (0-7432-0423-9)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lo Es: Una Memoria'Book summary:The Spanish edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, TIS is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes, and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University-- which admitted him on a trial basis, though he had no high school diploma-- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight, and still has today. And TIS is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as ANGELA'S ASHES. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. TIS blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more. [via]
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