What it Means to Be a Teacher: The Reality and Gift of Teaching
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Michael Gose Foreword by Don Cameron, former executive director of the National Education Association (NEA) |
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Rowman & Littlefield Education |
ALSO OF INTEREST:
Teaching with Joy: Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Sharon Shelton-Colangelo, Carolina Mancuso, and Mimi Duvall |
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"Finally, a book about teaching that tells it how it is. Michael Gose is a teacher who has made mistakes--and magic--like all of you. There's the time he attempts to teach The Owl and the Pussy Cat to a classroom of teenage boys. (A mistake.) And the time he saves a would-be-dropout by showing up at his house every morning at 5:30. (The magic.) He knows what it's like to wait desperately for a bathroom break. He knows what it's like to wait desperately for a paycheck."— NEA Today
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The stories, anecdotes, humor, and insights found in this book capture what it means to be a teacher. The book begins with common encounters that are the hallmark of the new-teacher experience, but continues into equally entertaining tales that come with years of working with students, parents, staff, faculty, and administrators. What it Means to Be a Teacher mirrors a teacher's playful sense of irony and a deep appreciation of the old wisdom about feeling "the impact of the great, occasional and accidental joy" which comes with teaching. Whether a teacher, principal, or administrator, readers will relate to the profound sense of what it means to be a teacher.
About the Author
Michael Gose, Ph.D. has been a fourth-grade teacher, tenth-grade English teacher, director of an experimental school, vice principal, principal, professor, director of secondary education, social science teacher, and teacher education division chair. He is currently professor in the Humanities/Teacher Education Department at Pepperdine University's Seaver College, Malibu, California.
