Twenty teachers / Ken Macrorie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macrorie, Ken, 1918-2009.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching.

Learning and scholarship.

Teachers--United States--Interviews.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

20 teachers

20 teachers.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, c1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rare and exceptional teacher--one who could teach absolutely anything to anybody--is what Ken Macrorie set out to find among teachers of many different subjects at many different levels. The result of his search is 20 Teachers, a collection of revealing profiles in which outstanding educators explain what works for them in the classroom and why. Macrorie's interviews with these professionals show an astonishing similarity in their beliefs, methods, and attitudes and the keys to their success with students from first grade to the graduate level. Ranging from a woodworking instructor in a wealthy suburban school to an inner-city history teacher to a professor of space engineering, the teachers profiled here share a fundamental belief in putting choice and responsibility in the hands of their students, no matter what their age.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

1. SAM BUSH, Woodworking, Prep School

2. RICHARD LEBOVITZ, Writing, High School

3. RANDY WERNER, Physical Education, Elementary School

4. DOREEN MACFARLANE-HOUSEL, Literature, High School

5. LAVERNE GONZALEZ, "Remedial" English, University

6. TWILA YATES PAPAY, English as a Second Language, College

7. BILL BARKER, Mathematics, College

8. PETER KAKELA, Environmental Studies, University

9. VERA MILZ, Reading, Elementary School

10. DAVID CURL, Photography, University

11. STEVEN URKOWITZ, Literature, College

12. CHARLES VAN RIPER, Speech Therapy, University

13. STANYAN VUKOVICH, Social Studies, High School

14. DON CAMPBELL, Physics, High School

15. MARCIA UMLAND, Writing, Elementary School

16. CAROL ELLIOTT, Acting, University

17. JAMES BRITTON, Teaching Teachers, Graduate School

18. FRED BARTMAN, Aerospace Engineering, University

19. TOM SMITH, Mathematics and Computers, Private School

20. JOHN SHEFFIELD, Soldiering, Army

WHAT ENABLERS DO

OPEN LETTER ABOUT SCHOOLS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1987."

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756007-5

1-4237-2912-9

1-280-44002-3

0-19-802056-2

1-60129-662-2

OCLC:

821687903