What Went Right - Lessons From Both Sides of the Teacher''s Desk

Personal and probing, evocative and wide-ranging, the letters that compose this book ask and attempt to answer some timeless-and timely-questions: What makes a teacher or a class memorable? How can the teacher-student relationship be supported and strengthened? What does being "educated" truly mean?

List of contents

Prologue
1: I'm hoping that you remember me
2: The opposite of burnout
3: Drills and dog clickers
4: Beneath, beyond, around the corner
5: To enjoy thinking
6: It bled into our lives
7: In the author's hands
8: The misunderstanding of education
9: The capacities that define us
10: There was no end, it seemed
11: Call it an injustice
12: The poetry inside us
13: Thinking about teachers
14: To take the long view
15: To reach judgments
16: Seduced by "observable goals"
17: How to be human
18: The best lessons
19: The crux of the problem
20: The way we conceptualize the world
21: The exaltation of ignorance
22: A hybrid profession
23: An ongoing, vital conversation
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Sources and Suggestions for Additional Reading

About the author

By Roberta Israeloff and George McDermott

Summary

Personal and probing, evocative and wide-ranging, the letters that compose this book ask and attempt to answer some timeless-and timely-questions: What makes a teacher or a class memorable? How can the teacher-student relationship be supported and strengthened? What does being "educated" truly mean?

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Israeloff, Roberta Mcdermott Israeloff, Roberta/ Mcdermott Israeloff, Israeloff Roberta, George McDermott
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781475834147
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3414-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching staff, Teaching skills & techniques, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, Teaching staff / Educators