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Memoirs of an American Teacher

Author : Marjorie Ruth White
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1602667926
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an American Teacher written by Marjorie Ruth White and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author holds a Master's degrees in Christian Education from Eden Seminary and in Nursing Education from Washington University, St. Louis. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from MacMurray College and a nursing certificate from Blessing Hospital. Awards include: Curator's Award from University of Missouri, Ford Foundation teaching internship, United States Public Health Service Grant, and academic scholarships. She has been recognized by Blessing nurses' alumni association as Nurse of the Year and inducted into her Palmyra, Missouri school district's Academic Hall of Fame. She was a missionary teacher for twenty years under the Presbyterian Church USA and vocational and program agencies. From 1974 to 1978 she was a Nursing Instructor at the University of Azarabadegan in Iran and from 1978 to 1988 she was a Christian Education Teacher at Maridi Teacher Training Institute and the first American woman to become Chair at their Department of Religion. Marjorie White, a missionary teacher for over twenty years, has written this book at the request of missionary schools who want to train educators to serve in Muslim countries. The book covers the personal perspectives and experiences in Iran during her time of service and her own perspectives on relating to those of the Muslim religion that she learned from interaction with her Muslim students, friends and co-workers. The books of Moses were the only text that she was allowed to use in her religious education classes in both Sudan and Iran and this presentation is fairly representative of what she taught. Parts of this book are devoted to her use of the new teaching technique of using literary methods to teach science and other non-literary subjects. This book is timely, as it addresses today's new interest in teaching Bible truths throughout school curriculum.

Teacher Man

Author : Frank McCourt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743243773
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Teacher Man written by Frank McCourt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom, and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.

The Battle for Room 314

Author : Ed Boland
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145556060X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Room 314 written by Ed Boland and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.

Warsaw

Author : Anne Waterman Cooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983901709
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Warsaw written by Anne Waterman Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warsaw: Memoirs of an American Teacher in Poland, recounts the experience of Anne Waterman Cooley as a young lecturer at the University of Warsaw from 1946-1948. At first a "part-cemetery, part-monument city" of rubble, Warsaw became for her a "vortex of excitement." Daily life, visits to Gdynia and Zakopane, sitting in on war criminal trials being held in Krakow, navigating Warsaw's ruins--all give a taste of post-World War II Poland, told from the perspective of a 21 year old American, newly graduated from Vassar College. The creeping influence of Soviet communism in Polish life and the resilience and spirit of the Polish people are captured in a personal tale told with humor and verve.

Kabul Classroom

Author : P.B. Travis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786476370
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Kabul Classroom written by P.B. Travis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, at age 60-something, decided she was ready to do tackle something different, somewhere completely different. This book recounts the school year she spent in Kabul, teaching at the American University of Afghanistan. She tells of her life at the school, in the guesthouse, and out and about in the city--all within the security parameters necessary in a war zone. Life with the threat of kidnapping and bombings was not so easy.

The Missing Teacher

Author : Lani V. Cox
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781507524121
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Teacher written by Lani V. Cox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've probably heard of Waldorf, but most people don't know what it is. Based on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual philosophy and the idea of giving children a holistic education, it's one of the fastest growing alternative educational systems in the world. I entered the fairy tale world of Waldorf with the best intentions, completed my training, and began teaching at a fledgling school. It was not the positive and nurturing environment I'd expected, and two years later, when it became apparent I didn't fit in, I was fired. I was devastated and lost my faith. In the following years I went looking for myself, and found clues in the most unlikely places, between root beer and burgers, a shoebox and a book on tape. the missing teacher explores the personality of education, looks into one of the most controversial education systems, and is a story about the education of self.

The American Teacher Memoir

Author : Jessica Wells Cantiello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The American Teacher Memoir written by Jessica Wells Cantiello and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 225 American teachers have published autobiographies that recount their lives in public school classrooms, but the teacher memoir, as a literary genre, has yet to receive sustained scholarly consideration. Since at least the beginning of the common school movement in the 1830s, a movement that is chronicled by the first teacher memoirist William Alcott in his aptly named Confessions of a School Master (1839), Americans have put enormous faith in the power of schooling to create an educated citizenry that can sustain a functional democracy. Teacher memoirs combine with portrayals by historians, administrators, policymakers, and scientists to assess the success or failure of education, which is often entangled with the perceived success or failure of America itself. I read teacher memoirs in the context of educational policy and literary history to demonstrate how the cultural climate in a given era shaped the way in which teachers narrated their experiences, and, in turn, how the memoirs influenced educational debates. This study raises complex questions about the political efficacy of literary texts, contributes to discussions within autobiography theory of the ethical considerations of life writing, and enriches historical narratives of teaching and learning.

Tis

Author : Frank McCourt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684845245
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Tis written by Frank McCourt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blonde, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in Angela's Ashes comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his Newsweek review of Angela's Ashes, "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's 'Tis is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.

A Teacher’s Memoirs

Author : Ang-Lee Lai Kuin
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482855100
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book A Teacher’s Memoirs written by Ang-Lee Lai Kuin and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hwa Chong Junior College (), established in 1974 is one of the top junior colleges in Singapore. Its’ bilingual (English and Chinese) and bicultural junior college programme prepares enrolled full-time 16 to 18 year-old students for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-level examinations for entry into the top local and prestigious foreign universities – such as the Oxbridge universities in the UK and the Ivy League universities in the US. The College attracts the best local students after their GCE O-level examinations, top-tier foreign students, the Ministry of Education’s ASEAN Scholars as well as other sponsored scholarship students from China and India. This book of memoirs, covering my years at Hwa Chong as a pioneer teacher from its very first year, shares with all my Hwa Chong colleagues, students Councillors and students (past, current and future) the history and traditions of the College whose deep rooted ethos and spirit help it to consistently deliver many top students and scholars into the best local and most prestigious universities overseas. These memoirs, written on the occasion of the College’s 40th Anniversary, also record and share the travails and distressing times of the College, as it was forced to spend several years ‘on the move’ in temporary premises. The memoirs also share the triumphs of the College’s students and student Councillors as they excel not only in their studies but also in various Co-Curricular Activites, and in leadership appointments – while enjoying their College life.

Autobiography of an American Teacher

Author : D. J. Wright
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543939378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of an American Teacher written by D. J. Wright and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American education system is in shambles. In Autobiography of an American Teacher, D.J. Wright sheds light on the reasons why. As a classroom teacher, she knows where tax money--earmarked for education--actually ends up. She knows what happens to teachers who stand up for teaching and learning. She's witnessed the racist education programs, designed to ensure generations of mediocrity. She knows why those with little to no classroom teaching experience are hired as American education leaders. And the worst part is that these shady practices originate in the offices of education leadership. You've listened to everyone else. Now, listen to a real American education expert: a classroom teacher. Many people have ideas about who is to blame for the current state of American education, and how to fix it. The problem is that most of these people have no credible, full-time classroom teaching experience. In America, any person can claim education know-how. This means that those who sound off about how to repair the American education system are usually wrong. We need to be aware of the grossly inferior caliber of persons making decisions that dictate what, how, and when things are taught in American classrooms. They, along with the ineffective, multi-billion-dollar education programs, continually sold to American school systems, have created a cataclysmic rift between what students need and what education leadership demands. American education leadership does not care about American students--it cares about the money it makes off the ineffective, multi-billion-dollar education programs that are continually sold to American school systems. The real victims, in American education, are its students. Education leadership does not want dynamic, capable, creative teachers, because those teachers will question and demand answers; those are the types of teachers who will refuse to force students to suffer the watered-down common conformity education programs that are squeezing creativity and critical thinking from American classrooms. This is why, in today's political climate, education leadership is unafraid to go after great teachers. Consequently, unless something changes, American students will have little exposure to truly great teachers.

Reading With Patrick

Author : Michelle Kuo
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447286065
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Reading With Patrick written by Michelle Kuo and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that’s when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers.

I'm the Teacher, You're the Student

Author : Patrick Allitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200403
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book I'm the Teacher, You're the Student written by Patrick Allitt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience answers this question by offering an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester in his American history course. The unique result—part diary, part sustained reflection—recreates both the unstudied realities and intensely satisfying challenges that teachers encounter in university lecture halls. From the initial selection of reading materials through the assignment of final grades to each student, Patrick Allitt reports with keen insight and humor on the rewards and frustrations of teaching students who often are unable to draw a distinction between the words "novel" and "book." Readers get to know members of the class, many of whom thrive while others struggle with assignments, plead for better grades, and weep over failures. Although Allitt finds much to admire in today's students, he laments their frequent lack of preparedness—students who arrive in his classroom without basic writing skills, unpracticed with reading assignments. With sharp wit, a critical eye, and steady sympathy for both educators and students, I'm the Teacher, You're the Student examines issues both large and small, from the ethics of student-teacher relationships to how best to evaluate class participation and grade writing assignments. It offers invaluable guidance to those concerned with the state of higher education today, to young faculty facing the classroom for the first time, and to parents whose children are heading off to college.

Educated

Author : Tara Westover
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 039959051X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Educated written by Tara Westover and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • Book Riot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library

The Age of Teacher Shortages

Author : Ernest J. Zarra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475850069
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Teacher Shortages written by Ernest J. Zarra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Teacher Shortages is a practical look at the reasons for teacher shortages in schools across America, and suggests solutions. These shortages are wide-reaching and becoming more extensive with each passing year. Although the bulk of the teacher shortages are within those which are state-trained and conventionally credentialed, private schools are also reeling under the pressure of insufficient staffing. Is there just a downturn in adults desiring to be in the teaching profession, or are there other elements at work? This book details elements within American culture that are causing teachers to leave the profession early. In addition to this attrition, the reasons less students are enrolling in programs other than traditional teacher education programs are also explored. Regardless the reasons for decreases in enrollment, the effect are negative upon states, school districts, and families across the United States. There are emergency efforts under way to address teacher shortages. Departments of education and local school districts are applying different certification and credentialing strategies to both attract and keep teachers employed. Many wonder what the overall, long-term effects of these new methods of employing teachers will be upon education in America. This book engages these questions, and more. In so doing, it provides a realistic look into the impacts of teacher shortages, alternative certifications, and causes of changes in twenty-first century American culture.

Teacher Man

Author : Frank McCourt
Publisher : Collins Educational
ISBN 13 : 9780007228027
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Teacher Man written by Frank McCourt and published by Collins Educational. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of 66, he burst onto the literary scene with "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came "'Tis," his glorious account of his early years in New York. McCourt's classic audiobook about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer, "Teacher Man" is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. "Teacher Man" shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally-charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses: A Memoir of a Jewish Teacher in a Catholic School

Author : Diane Gensler
Publisher : Apprentice House
ISBN 13 : 9781627202831
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Forgive Us Our Trespasses: A Memoir of a Jewish Teacher in a Catholic School written by Diane Gensler and published by Apprentice House. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been the odd man out? A different breed? A fish out of water? Join the author as she navigates foreign territory as the only Jewish person teaching in a Catholic school. Experience the joy and memorable moments as well as the sting of anti-Semitism and ignorance. Despite the challenges, she discovers that the job was a blessing in disguise and fate may have played a hand in her school placement.

Educating Esmé

Author : Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565129717
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Educating Esmé written by Esmé Raji Codell and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once "a pop culture phenomenon" (Publishers Weekly) and "screamingly funny" (Booklist), Educating Esmé "should be read by anyone who's interested in the future of public education" (Boston Phoenix Literary Section). A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé—as she prefers to be called—does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher’s perspective. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher. Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself.