The secret lives of teachers / Anonymous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewey, Horace (Pseudonym), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High school teachers--New York (State)--New York.

High school teachers.

Private schools--New York (State)--New York.

Private schools.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: working propositions

School's open

Commencing (opening day)

The teacher within

Checking your self (badges of identity)

Compensations (money, salary, and working conditions)

Teaching time (seconds to decades)

Subject matters (the role of academic disciplines)

Progressive faith (the default philosophy of teachers)

Among students

Name games (the struggle to know one's students)

Jealousy (dealing with tears)

Transit (apprehending student lives in motion)

Gradients (assessments and their pitfalls)

Romantics (love in various forms)

Questioning (the role of classroom dialogue)

Gingerly revising (confronting limits)

Native intelligence (working with unprepared students)

(Dangerous) diversity (touchy subjects and hurt feelings)

Projection (visiting another school)

Enlarging the world (the struggle to affirm the life of the mind)

Among parents

Parental teaching (the parent-teacher power struggle)

Home work (managing family management)

Among colleagues

Smart board, dumb teacher (technology and its discontents)

Positions (conflicts between teachers)

Among administrators

Complaints (the faculty/administration divide)

Brownie points (problem-solving/student discipline)

School's close

Regraduating (closing the circle).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250).

ISBN:

9780226313627

022631362X

OCLC:

907205944