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Never Too Old to Teach: How Middle-Aged Wisdom Can Transform Young Minds in the Classroom

Autor Neil M. Goldman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 ian 2009
Never Too Old to Teach is a heart-warming story of a middle-aged man's first year of teaching high school after spending twenty years in a corporate cubicle. Written in a humorous, straightforward style with minimal technical jargon, this book provides richly detailed accounts of events, lessons, and conversations that actually took place in the author's special education English classroom. Goldman's accounts are accompanied by narratives and reflections that give the reader insight into the true nature of teaching high school English to a diverse student body with learning disabilities, covering issues such as maintaining classroom control, effective curriculum development, collaboration with families for positive student outcomes, successfully working with administration, the benefits of teaching in middle age, and establishing student rapport.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781578869756
ISBN-10: 1578869757
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția R&L Education
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 From a Corporate Cubicle to the Special Ed Classroom
Chapter 3 The Unfair Special Education Stigma
Chapter 4 The Thought
Chapter 5 The Interview
Chapter 6 Knot in My Stomach
Chapter 7 Chocolate Brownies
Chapter 8 Masters of Brevity
Chapter 9 The Shampoo Bottle
Chapter 10 Sleepyhead
Chapter 11 Drew, the Human Spring
Chapter 12 Stop Harassing My Son
Chapter 13 The Domino Effect
Chapter 14 Reaching Carl
Chapter 15 My Mother Tore that Shit Up
Chapter 16 The Wise Enforcer
Chapter 17 Leave Me Be; I'm Doing Fine
Chapter 18 Special Education - A Paradox
Chapter 19 You Don't Have the Patience to Be a Teacher
Chapter 20 Why Are We Learning This in English Class?
Chapter 21 Kyle's Observation
Chapter 22 You're Doing This for Free?
Chapter 23 Racism, Theresa, and the Big Box Store
Chapter 24 Fairness and Equality
Chapter 25 The Crashing and Burning of a Group Contingency
Chapter 26 Worthless Piece of Shit
Chapter 27 No Drinks in the Classroom
Chapter 28 The LBS-I is a Good Thing
Chapter 29 Don't Fear the High School
Chapter 30 The Mysterious Kangaroo and His Indictment
Chapter 31 Student Teaching - Introduction
Chapter 32 What Student Teaching Is
Chapter 33 A Globe
Chapter 34 Metal Detectors
Chapter 35 The Perpetual Assembly
Chapter 36 My Mentors
Chapter 37 Mentor #1: Candy Man
Chapter 38 Mentor #2: A Student's Oldest Friend
Chapter 39 Apologia
Chapter 40 The Difference Between Men and Women
Chapter 41 "Why Are You Teaching Us This Shit?"
Chapter 42 Don't Wish for Quiet

Recenzii

Goldman offers fellow practitioners-in the spirit of the birthday buffet gloriously arranged in the teacher's lounge-a candid and painfully humorous insight into the world of teaching at-risk students. While many of us have often wished that we memorialized all of these fantastically teachable moments, Neil Goldman has successfully captured them with exceptional wit tempered with dignitiy for his students.
Goldman blends humor and a wisdom that comes with age and experience....This is not just a book for those coming into teaching later in life.
Goldman's book is simultaneously heart-warming and humorous, respectful of his students and his profession, and richly complex and thought-provoking. Through his short stories, he expertly conveys the numerous dilemmas that good teachers manage, the challenges with which educators are confronted in today's world, and the glorious successes that occur often enough for each teacher to persevere.