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My First Year As a Teacher

ISBN: 9780451188915 | 0451188918
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Pub. Date: 7/1/1996

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
In this "training guide", teachers from across the nation reveal the expectations and experiences in educating the gifted, privileged, handicapped, and disadvantaged. Offering over 25 personal accounts and from-the-hip advice not found in typical career guides, My First Year As a Teacher will give reliable guidance for newcomes to the teaching field.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSix(2)
FOREWORDxi
Wendy Kopp
INTRODUCTION1(13)
... MORE
Pearl Rock Kane
1. "Ever Been to Disneyland?"
14(7)
David Callaway
2. The Road
21(5)
Marcia Nehemiah
3. "Don't Waste Your Time with Those Kids"
26(6)
Janice Anderson Connolly
4. The University School
32(4)
Emma Lewinsohn Frey
5. David
36(7)
Nancy Gustafson
6. "The Best You Can Be"
43(5)
Kayla McClurg
7. Adrianna
48(8)
Rosemary Genova DiBattista
8. Answers and Questions
56(8)
Z. Vance Wilson
9. Learning to Read Patrick
64(4)
McWilliams
10. Order in the Classroom
68(6)
Andrew Dean Mullen
11. Death in the Classroom
74(4)
Judy A. Luster
12. "It Say, I'm Very Mad at You"
78(6)
Anita S. Charles
13. Sonny
84(8)
Julie Olin Schulz
14. Johnny Carson Was My Mentor
92(5)
Ronald D. Thorpe, Jr.
15. Plagiarism
97(7)
Ted Fitts
16. The Forest and the Tree
104(5)
Elizabeth L. Esris
17. The Ultimate Challenge
109(7)
Polly Rimer Duke
18. "Welcome to the Sixth Grade"
116(6)
Brad Wilcox
19. "You Can't"
122(6)
David Gould
20. On Teaching: A Letter to Luke
128(7)
Albert S. Thompson
21. The Accidental Teacher
135(6)
Katherine Schulten
22. The Green Monongahela
141(10)
John Taylor Gatto
23. My Ambition: To Teach
151(5)
Yetta Haber Farber
24. Graduation
156(6)
Ron Wolfson
25. Memories Are Made of This
162(7)
Roberta Vicki Sherman
INDEX169
Pearl Rock Kane is an assistant professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a doctorate from Teachers College and lives in New York City.

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