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Tuned in and fired up : how teaching can inspire real learning in the classroom / Sam M. Intrator.
LIBRA LB1025.3 .I584 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Intrator, Sam M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teaching.
- Learning.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 170 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The author of "Stories of the Courage to Teach" now scrutinizes powerful times of inspiration in a high school classroom and reveals how to make these special moments happen more often.
- Contents:
- "The kids were on fire" : on the nature of inspired learning and potent teaching
- Spans of time that don't glow : a portrait of everyday life at Stanton High
- Seeing the world in a plot of grass : discovering the enchanting power of the aesthetic
- Forging community : an episode of deep connection
- Grasping insight : an episode of coming to know yourself
- Doing good : an episode of enacting virtue
- Tangling with the unspeakable : an episode of facing conflict in conversation
- Caught! common features in the episodes
- A letter to a colleague
- Author's note and methods.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300100221
- OCLC:
- 51770187
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