A Teacher S Tale

Author : Joe Gilliland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491745847

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A Teacher’S Tale by Joe Gilliland Pdf

It was never in author Joe Gilliland’s plan to become a teacher, certainly not a college teacher and most certainly not an English teacher. But that’s what happened, and he’s never looked back. In A Teacher’s Tale, he explains, how by neither planning for nor seeking a life of learning and teaching, lacking a syllabus or lesson plan, he discovered that a life in academe lay in his path—a path he’s followed for more than fifty years. A Teacher’s Tale begins in 1932 with Gilliland’s first experiences in schooling and concludes in the summer of 1955 just as he completes his apprenticeship and stands on the brink of becoming a qualified instructor in a small college in east Texas. This memoir presents a collection of stories about his experiences as a teacher and a college student. A story of schooling deeply immersed in the arts and humanities, A Teacher’s Tale shares Gilliland’s love of the university and how it compelled him to seek a life devoted to teaching, primarily in the community college arena. Through this narrative, he brings together a philosophy of higher education based on the importance of arts and humanities in today’s high- tech world.

Author : Ed Boland
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781455560608

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The Battle for Room 314 by Ed Boland Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Wilder
Publisher : Delta
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780385339285

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Tales from the Teachers' Lounge by Robert Wilder Pdf

From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school—and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective—as a teacher, parent, and former student—to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd…and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experiment gone wrong–and dares to tell about it. He shares the surprising lessons he’s learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers…manage “helicopter” parents…and cope with bullies—whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don’t help). In Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life’s learning curve with a warmth and humor you don’t find in textbooks. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover of education.

Author : Sally J. Zepeda
Publisher : Eye On Education
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Motivation in education
ISBN : 9781596671003

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A Guide for Tales from a Teacher's Heart by Sally J. Zepeda Pdf

Tales from a Teacher's Heart is a video series that tells heartwarming stories about students, schools, and teachers like you. From the lives of our authors, these true stories celebrate and explore all the ways teachers make a difference. Topics include: - the first year of teaching - teachers supporting teachers - connecting with students - and more. The Tales from a Teacher's Heart: Study Guide includes text versions of the tales, discussion questions, strategies, applications, and musings on what it means to be a teacher. Use this book for professional development, self-reflection, starting and closing meetings, and study groups.

Author : The Freedom Writers,Erin Gruwell
Publisher : Crown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780767928335

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The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition) by The Freedom Writers,Erin Gruwell Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was met by uncomprehending looks—none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding. Her students began recording their thoughts and feelings in their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers.” Consisting of powerful entries from the students’ diaries and narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an unforgettable story of how hard work, courage, and determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. In the two decades since its original publication, the book has sold more than one million copies and inspired a major motion picture Freedom Writers. And now, with this twentieth-anniversary edition, readers are brought up to date on the lives of the Freedom Writers, as they blend indispensable takes on social issues with uplifting stories of attending college—and watch their own children follow in their footsteps. The Freedom Writers Diary remains a vital read for anyone who believes in second chances.

Author : Rog Stoufer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985093773

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A Tale of a Teacher by Rog Stoufer Pdf

A junior high school principal once said, "Good teachers are born teachers, not made into them." This story shows otherwise. It is about a little boy who at first hates school, but who with the influence of nurturing teachers, supportive friends, and strong role models, grows to love the classroom and chooses it as a career. Included are entertaining descriptions of how his personal life affected that career; colorful accounts of the most memorable students, teachers, and administrators; candid critiques of education reform efforts; and retrospective analysis of how the teaching process worked and didn't work. These sketches, although sometimes surprising, all come straight from the heart.

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911042594

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Teachers' Strangest Tales by Iain Spragg Pdf

A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom – and they’re all true. Featuring the flamboyant swimming teacher who spent his spare time fighting bears, the story of how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capone’s infamous crime empire, and the bizarre tale of the American teacher who sued her own pupils for not paying attention in her lesson, this book is a real education. An ideal end-of-year teacher gift, this fascinating book is also a must-read for anyone who’s ever been to school. So stop talking at the back, pay attention and start reading! Word count: 45,000

Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139500

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Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers by William Lynwood Montell Pdf

This colorful collection of stories celebrates a fascinating aspect of Kentucky’s cultural heritage in “a fascinating look back at a bygone era” (Kentucky Monthly). In an educational era defined by large school campuses and overcrowded classrooms, it is easy to overlook the era of one-room schools, when teachers filled every role, including janitor, and provided a family-like atmosphere in which children also learned from one another. In Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers, oral historian William Lynwood Montell reclaims an important part of Kentucky's social, cultural, and educational heritage, assembling a fascinating collection of schoolroom stories. The firsthand narratives and anecdotes in this collection cover topics such as teacher-student relationships, day-to-day activities, lunchtime foods, students' personal relationships, and, of course, the challenges of teaching in a one-room school. Montell includes tales about fund-raising pie suppers, pranks, outrageous student behavior—such as the quiet little boy whose first “sharing” involved profanity—and many other topics. Montell even includes some of his own memories from his days as a pupil in a one-room school.

Author : Roy Fisher,Ann Harris,Christine Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134320639

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Education in Popular Culture by Roy Fisher,Ann Harris,Christine Jarvis Pdf

Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. The analyses are contextualised within contemporary, historical and ideological frameworks, and make connections between popular representations and professional and political discourses about education. Through its examination of film, television, popular lyrics and fiction, this book tackles educational themes that recur in popular culture, and demonstrates how they intersect with debates concerning teacher performance, the curriculum and young people’s behaviour and morality. Chapters explore how experiences of education are both reflected and constructed in ways that sometimes reinforce official and professional educational perspectives, and sometimes resist and oppose them. Education in Popular Culture will stimulate critical reflection on the popular myths and professional discourses that surround teachers and teaching. It will serve to deepen analyses of teaching and learning and their associated institutional and societal contexts in a creative and challenging way.

Author : Kevin Vachna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977235263

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Obsolete by Kevin Vachna Pdf

Black Mirror meets Dead Poets Society, OBSOLETE is a thrilling adventure set in the not so distant future, where technology is invisibly engrained in every aspect of life, even finding a home inside of us. Crime, Disease, and Poverty are all but extinct. Democracy is decided in real-time with lightning-fast ease. Holographic projections are at everyone's fingertips, swallowing them in in a world of constant entertainment and communication. There's just one problem: the kids are all becoming hyperactive, disconnected screen-addicts. The America Learns Initiative, a federal program under the Department of Restructure, has a solution: The Success Spheres! Championing the mantra, "Do nothing and learn!" this state of the art technology promises to save the failing school system, its students, and teachers, once and for all. After an unauthorized history lesson, Professor T is reassigned to one of the worst performing schools around. There, unlikely allies and hidden threats lead T to revelations about a conspiracy with sinister roots. What T discovers could threaten to overturn the ALI's Success Sphere program and the very foundations of society, itself.

Author : Katya Ferguson
Publisher : HighWater Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Education, Elementary
ISBN : 1553797051

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Teacher's Guide for the Seven Teachings Stories by Katya Ferguson Pdf

Designed to help teachers in early years classrooms use The Seven Teachings Stories series, by Katherena Vermette, this guide provides the framework and key ideas educators need to become participants in a culturally responsive classroom community and to deepen their understanding of the Seven Teachings. With these stories, educators can create a space to discuss diverse perspectives, experiences, and traditions with young readers, and to foster a deeper understanding of ourselves as human beings and of our relationships with others. This guide is presented in three sections and includes: Key information about the Seven Teachings, Anishinaabe vocabulary, and the characters in each story. Ideas to guide student learning. Approaches and suggestions that teachers can apply to any of the seven stories. Strategies and activities to deepen readers' understanding of the abstract concepts addressed in the stories. An appendix of reproducible classroom materials.

Author : Nancy A Kaiser
Publisher : Nancy Kaiser
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619793132

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Tales of an Animal Communicator - Master Teachers by Nancy A Kaiser Pdf

Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481438292

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Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds Pdf

"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316404952

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The Goodbye Book by Anonim Pdf

From bestselling author Todd Parr, a poignant and reassuring story about loss. Through the lens of a pet fish who has lost his companion, Todd Parr tells a moving and wholly accessible story about saying goodbye. Touching upon the host of emotions children experience, Todd reminds readers that it's okay not to know all the answers, and that someone will always be there to support them. An invaluable resource for life's toughest moments.

Author : Nancy L. Canepa
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814339367

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Teaching Fairy Tales by Nancy L. Canepa Pdf

Pedagogical models and methodologies for engaging with fairy tales in the classroom.