Good day, bad day : teaching as a high wire act / Ken Winograd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winograd, Ken, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First year teachers.

Teacher effectiveness.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 295 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2005.

Summary:

Good Day, Bad Day: Teaching as a High-Wire Act is the story of how Ken Winograd grappled with the uncertainties and contradictions of teaching and, in the process, began to understand himself as teacher. Winograd contends that it is crucial that teachers, especially beginning teachers, examine and reflect on the inevitable complexities of classroom life as they work to construct professional identities that are flexible, strategic, and multifaceted. After 13 years as a teacher educator, he returned to the classroom as a teacher in a nongraded primary classroom. In Good Day, Bad Day, he describes this experience.

The first half of this book contains Winograd's daily journal, where he details his everyday work. The journal describes his struggles with students, efforts to construct a curriculum that reflected his changing beliefs about teaching, and the highs and lows typical for beginning teachers. The second half formally examines various nonpedagogic aspects of teaching, including teacher-student power relations, emotions, and the development of teacher identity. Good Day, Bad Day will be useful to teachers, teacher educators, administrators, and policymakers committed to the development of teachers so they can reflect critically on their experience and then act to improve their working conditions, as well as the learning conditions of students.

Contents:

Part I The Joural and Refections

1 The Journal: From First Day to Last 3

Part II Dimensions of Teaching-Three Studies

2 The Negotiative Dimension of Teaching: Teachers Sharing Power with the Less Powerful 169

3 The Functions of Teacher Emotions: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 199

4 Theorizing Flexibility: Teacher as High-Wire Dancer 231

5 Concluding on an Optimistic Note 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index.

ISBN:

1578862442

OCLC:

57237574