The secret lives of teachers /
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| Author / Creator: | Dewey, Horace (Pseudonym), author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247155 |
Table of 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).