American Teacher

Author : Katrina Fried
Publisher : Welcome Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781599621272

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Celebrating educators, who go far above and beyond the call of duty, American Teacher shines a spotlight on one of the most underappreciated, undercompensated, yet critically important professions in the world. Over the course of two years, Katrina Fried has interviewed and written the stories of 50 extraordinary teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade, selected from public and charter schools across the United States. The result is a collection of inspiring and informative first person-narratives accompanied by heartfelt letters from students and captivating portraits taken by celebrated photographers from around the country such as Peter Feldstein, Roman Cho, Paul Natkin and Laura Straus. American Teacher introduces us to classroom heroes like Stephen Ritz of NYC's South Bronx, who uses sustainable agriculture as a tool to engage and inspire his neighborhood's most at-risk special-needs students; Rafe Esquith, a trail-blazing, multi-award-winning educator and author, who has spent 31years teaching 5th grade from within the same four walls at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles; and Iowan Sarah Brown Wessling who's unique "learner-centered" approach to teaching high school English earned her the 2010 National Teacher of the Year award. These are our most unsung heroes, the men and women responsible for molding and preparing our children to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In the face of increasing class sizes, insufficient resources, and budget cuts, many of our teachers are dipping into their own pockets and personal time to bridge the gap for their students; they are finding innovative and engaging solutions to institutional problems and changing the outcome of countless lives in the process. Hear their stories, see their faces, and join us as we pay tribute to their passion and sacrifice.

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : College teaching
ISBN : 0819154474

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Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun Pdf

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Author : Donald H. Parkerson,Jo Ann Parkerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135892173

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The American Teacher by Donald H. Parkerson,Jo Ann Parkerson Pdf

The American Teacher is a comprehensive education foundations text with an emphasis on the historical continuity of educational issues and their practical application in the classroom. Aspiring teachers enter the classrooms with an innate optimism, and the challenge of The American Teacher is to engage them and to provide meaningful direction to channel their idealism. By reconnecting individuals with their society, community, and workplace, this engaging text provides education students with a grounding in their profession and an understanding of how important social and political issues affect educational practice.

Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781538189122

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The American Teacher by Lawrence R. Samuel Pdf

Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed in on its many different dimensions from the 1920s to today.

Author : Katherine Binns
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788172915

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The American Teacher, 1993 by Katherine Binns Pdf

Illustrates the concerns of teachers, students and law enforcement officers across the country, about the increasing violence and fears of violence in their schools. Contents: defining the problem (types of violence), other aspects of students lives (home life, TV, crime in their neighborhood), sources and reactions to violence (likely victims), weapons and self protection, teacher and student experiences (types of violent acts), defining the impact (effects of violence on teachers and students), and examining some solutions (security personnel). Appendix A presents the methodology of this report, and Appendix B the questionnaires given to teachers.

Author : Marjorie Ruth White
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602667921

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Memoirs of an American Teacher by Marjorie Ruth White Pdf

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.

Author : Julyan G. Peard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611487657

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An American Teacher in Argentina by Julyan G. Peard Pdf

An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters the historical record, she moved along the fault lines of some of the greatest historical dramas and changes in nineteenth-century US and Argentine history: she was a pioneering child on the US-Indian frontier; she participated in the push for US women’s education; she was a single woman traveler at a time when few women traveled alone; she was a player in an Argentine attempt to expand common school education; and a beneficiary of the great primary products export boom in the second half of nineteenth-century Argentina, and thus well positioned to enjoy the country’s Belle Époque. The book is not a straightforward, biographical narrative of a woman’s life. It charts a life, but, more important, it charts the evolving ideas in a life lived mostly among people pushing boundaries in pursuit of what they considered progress. What emerges is a quintessentially transnational life story that engages with themes of gender, education, religion, contact with indigenous peoples in both the US and Argentina, natural history, and economic and political change in Argentina in the second half of the nineteenth century. Because the book tells a good story about one woman’s rich and eventful life, it will also appeal to an audience beyond academe.

Author : John Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Readers
ISBN : OSU:32435067507319

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Mentor, Or, The American Teacher's Assistant by John Wood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Eloquence
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJLPW

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The American Teacher's Lessons of Instruction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dana Goldstein
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780345803627

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The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780743296281

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Pdf

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Author : Dave Eggers,Henry Louis Gates,Daniel Moulthrop,Ninive Clements Calegari
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781458784384

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Teachers Have it Easy by Dave Eggers,Henry Louis Gates,Daniel Moulthrop,Ninive Clements Calegari Pdf

Since its initial publication and multiple reprints in hardcover in 2005, Teachers Have It Easy has attracted the attention of teachers nationwide, appearing on the New York Times extended bestseller list, C-SPAN, and NPR's Marketplace, in additio...

Author : Garret Keizer
Publisher : Picador
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1250069386

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Getting Schooled by Garret Keizer Pdf

A New York Times Editors' Choice "Keizer writes eloquently and perceptively . . . More than just thoughtful, reasonable, carefully observed, elegantly written, and deeply humane, this book is also that rare thing, a work of genuine wisdom."-Chicago Tribune Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves, however, are conspicuously missing. Defying the trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school in this arresting chronicle of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then-a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much to increase as to lighten. At once fiercely critical and deeply contemplative, Getting Schooled exposes the obstacles that teachers face daily-and along the way takes aim at some cherished cant: that public education is doomed, that the heroic teacher is the cure for all that ails education, that educational reform can serve as a cheap substitute for societal reform.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426086

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You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers Pdf

An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly

Author : Donald H. Parkerson,Jo Ann Parkerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135892166

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The American Teacher by Donald H. Parkerson,Jo Ann Parkerson Pdf

The American Teacher is a comprehensive education foundations text with an emphasis on the historical continuity of educational issues and their practical application in the classroom. Aspiring teachers enter the classrooms with an innate optimism, and the challenge of The American Teacher is to engage them and to provide meaningful direction to channel their idealism. By reconnecting individuals with their society, community, and workplace, this engaging text provides education students with a grounding in their profession and an understanding of how important social and political issues affect educational practice.