Frontier Teachers

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493064786

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Frontier Teachers by Chris Enss Pdf

If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men—a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Now with five new teachers covered and a new chapter, the second edition of Frontier Teachers brings these important stories to light. Between 1847 and 1858, more than 600 women teachers traveled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for ladies of the era. Enduring hardship, the dozen women whose stories are movingly told in the pages of Frontier Teachers demonstrated the utmost dedication and sacrifice necessary to bring formal education to the Wild West. As immortalized in works of art and literature, for many students their women teachers were heroic figures who introduced them to a world of possibilities—and changed America forever.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762751884

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Frontier Teachers by Chris Enss Pdf

If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men—a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Between 1847 and 1858, more than 600 women teachers traveled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for ladies of the era. Enduring hardship, the dozen women whose stories are movingly told in the pages of Frontier Teachers demonstrated the utmost dedication and sacrifice necessary to bring formal education to the Wild West. As immortalized in works of art and literature, for many students their women teachers were heroic figures who introduced them to a world of possibilities—and changed America forever.

Author : Sandra L. Myres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0826306268

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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 by Sandra L. Myres Pdf

Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.

Author : Linda Peavy,Ursula Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135050

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Frontier Children by Linda Peavy,Ursula Smith Pdf

Vintage photographs accompany the stories of pioneer children and their families

Author : Ryan P. Randolph
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823962952

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Frontier Schools and Schoolteachers by Ryan P. Randolph Pdf

Provides a brief description of what school was like on the American frontier, discussing the buildings, teachers, supplies, and challenges for a formal education.

Author : Kristin Kipp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118646601

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Teaching on the Education Frontier by Kristin Kipp Pdf

A groundbreaking guide to facilitating online and blended courses This comprehensive resource offers teachers in grades K-12 a hands-on guide to the rapidly growing field of online and blended teaching. With clear examples and explanations, Kristin Kipp shows how to structure online and blended courses for student engagement, build relationships with online students, facilitate discussion boards, collaborate online, design online assessments, and much more. Shows how to create a successful online or blended classroom Illustrates the essential differences between face-to-face instruction and online teaching Foreword by Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning This is an essential handbook for learning how to teach online and improve student achievement.

Author : Brenda C. Calloway
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0932807348

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America's First Western Frontier, East Tennessee by Brenda C. Calloway Pdf

Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.

Author : Randall M. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2658 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065361

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes] by Randall M. Miller Pdf

The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015060438457

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Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : NWU:35559002074965

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Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board Pdf

Author : Polly Welts Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300034024

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Women Teachers on the Frontier by Polly Welts Kaufman Pdf

Uses diary selections and letters to document the experiences of young, single women who journeyed west to teach pioneer children

Author : Martin Lawn,Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education Martin Lawn,Gerald Grace,Professor Gerald Grace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415508414

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Teachers by Martin Lawn,Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education Martin Lawn,Gerald Grace,Professor Gerald Grace Pdf

This book examines the experience and politics of teachers' work, questions of teacher appraisal, and the struggles of the teachers' action of 1984-86. A major section of the book charts the changing power relations between organized teachers and the State in Britain from 1900 to the late 1980s. The contributors to this volume write from a variety of perspectives, including conflict theory, socio-historical analysis, feminist analysis, diary-based ethnography, and interview-based research. With its sensitivity to this range of perspectives and its bringing together of the experimental aspects of teaching, as well as its class, gender and political relations, this book is an authoritative source for courses in education, sociology, history and social policy.

Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136931598

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The World of the American West by Gordon Morris Bakken Pdf

The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn "Cowboys and Indians" stereotype right up into the major issues being discussed today, from water rights to the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered in this heavily illustrated, highly accessible volume include the effects of leisure and tourism, western women, politics and politicians, Native Americans in the twentieth century, and of course, oil. With insight both informative and unexpected, The World of the American West offers perspectives on the latest developments affecting the modern American West, providing essential reading for all scholars and students of the field so that they may better understand the vibrant history of this globally significant, ever-evolving region of North America.

Author : Terry Lee Marzell
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781627871846

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Chalkboard Heroes: Twelve Courageous Teachers and Their Deeds of Valor by Terry Lee Marzell Pdf

A collection of inspiring and informative narratives, Chalkboard Heroes: Twelve Courageous Teachers and Their Deeds of Valor introduces us to real American heroes. Author and educator Terry Lee Marzell shines a spotlight on heroic teachers in American history who were both exemplars of teaching and role models of society. We meet the teachers who protected our country like Henry Alvin Cameron, who fought in World War I, and Francis Wayland Parker, a Civil War veteran. We learn about the social reformers who put themselves at risk to fight for improved conditions and better lives for disenfranchised citizens like Dolores Huerta, the champion of migrant farm workers; Robert Parris Moses, the civil rights activist; Prudence Crandall, who defied prevailing convention to open a school for African American girls; Carrie Chapman Catt, the suffragist; and Zitkala-Sa, who campaigned for the constitutional rights of Native Americans. We get to know the brave pioneers who took great risks to blaze a trail for others to follow such as Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space; Willa Brown Chappell, the aviatrix who taught Tuskegee airmen to fly; Etta Schureman Jones, who was interned for four years in a POW camp in Japan during WWII; and Olive Mann Isbell, who established the first English school in California while the Mexican American War raged around her. Lastly, we discover teachers like Dave Sanders of Columbine High School who put their own lives at risk to protect the students whose safety was entrusted to their care. Chalkboard Heroes combines superb storytelling and scholarship in this engaging, inspirational work that is sure to inspire as well as educate.

Author : Michael Thomas,Hayo Reinders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472572233

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Contemporary Task-Based Language Teaching in Asia by Michael Thomas,Hayo Reinders Pdf

Over the last decade task-based approaches to language learning and teaching (TBLT) have become a global focus of increased levels of research. Governments around the world have turned to TBLT as a potential solution for curricula that lack authentic and meaningful engagement with language learning and are failing to motivate students as a result. This book focuses on Asia, where this shift has been particularly in evidence. TBLT has often been implemented in top-down approaches to curriculum development, which presents a huge range of challenges at the cultural as well as the pedagogic level. Contemporary Task Based Language Teaching in Asia looks at the drivers, stakeholders and obstacles across the region. Some countries have adapted TBLT to deal with the local constraints, others have found it hard to apply and many are still in the process of investigating its implementation in their specific contexts. This collection is important to all involved in language development, from curriculum reform to materials development. It assists from programme evaluation to the setting of assessment standards. The chapters cover all aspects of language education across Asia, from primary to tertiary, private and public education, as well as innovations at local, regional and national levels.