Memoirs Of An American Teacher

Author : Marjorie Ruth White
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Marjorie Ruth White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1602667918

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Memoirs of an American Teacher by Marjorie Ruth White Pdf

White, a missionary teacher for more than 20 years, has written this book at the request of missionary schools that 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 Muslims. (Social Issues)

Author : Anne Waterman Cooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0983901708

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Warsaw by Anne Waterman Cooley Pdf

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.

Author : Frank McCourt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743243773

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Teacher Man by Frank McCourt Pdf

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.

Author : Elsie Higa
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483424590

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Memoirs of a Certain Sansei: A Japanese American Mother and Teacher by Elsie Higa Pdf

For more than four decades, author and teacher Elsie Higa has inspired thousands of students, many of whom write complimentary notes to her. In Memoirs of a Certain Sansei, she shares her stories, including her parenting secrets. This memoir also springs from the comments of her students and her responses to them. These two forces inspired Higa to combine her knowledge of parenthood with her teaching expertise in a warm and wise narrative that parents, teachers, students, and children will learn from. ""Without guidance from Sensei, I would not be where I am today."" (alumnus) Higa set out to share parental and scholarly wisdom, and she achieved far more through stories packed with illumination on life in general. They are beautifully written, fast paced, entertaining, and enlightening. Any reader in search of tips for better living, effective relationships, and personal reward will enjoy and profit from this book. Dr. Doris M. Ching Vice President Emeritus Student Affairs University of Hawaii

Author : Michelle Kuo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760555009

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Reading With Patrick by Michelle Kuo Pdf

A memoir of race, inequality and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student who was jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta. 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, killing a man and facing a lengthy jail sentence. 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. Finely written in the very best tradition of American long-form narrative, Reading with Patrick is a story of hope, redemption and the power of books to transform – and even to save – a life.

Author : Frank McCourt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684845241

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Tis by Frank McCourt Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Kravitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1950154696

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So You Wanna Be a Teacher, a Memoir: 32 Years of Sweat Hogs, Teen Angst, Hall Fights and Lifetime Friends by Peter Kravitz Pdf

On Peter Kravitz' first day as a teacher, a veteran principal taught him the mantra that would carry him through thirty-two years in front of classes: Treat the children as if they were your own. A memoir.

Author : Patrick Allitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780812200409

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I'm the Teacher, You're the Student by Patrick Allitt Pdf

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.

Author : Henry Barnard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382307561

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Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature, and Science by Henry Barnard Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Jon Pahl
Publisher : Infinity Pub
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0741451298

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An American Teacher by Jon Pahl Pdf

Part intellectual mystery, part Gothic tale, Haunting Henry James explores the link between creative inspiration, the search for self, and the struggle to reconcile art and life. Imaginatively evokes the personalities of Byron, Shelley, Henry James, Vita Sackville-West and the ghosts that haunted them. Percy Bysshe Shelley is a young poet determined to liberate humanity with the power of his words. Henry James is a novelist determined to uncover mysteries surrounding Shelley¿s life and death, mysteries that involve a hidden diary and secret betrayal. The result is a return to the past that will change the course of the future.

Author : Tara Westover
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443452502

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Educated by Tara Westover Pdf

For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school. Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought.

Author : Nick Aaron Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0899622771

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Seeking a Newer World by Nick Aaron Ford Pdf

Author : Bruce Feiler
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061863592

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Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler Pdf

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.

Author : Ang-Lee Lai Kuin
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781482855104

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A Teacher’s Memoirs by Ang-Lee Lai Kuin Pdf

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.