Why we teach /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Public schools and the work of teachers
- II: Taking the long way
- The accidental teacher / Jennifer Welborn
- I'm not sure I want to be a "teacher" / Judith Kauffman Baker
- Who invited that guy? / Bob Amses
- On re-becoming a teacher / Laila M. Di Silvio
- Waiting tables and juggling motherhood: taking the road less traveled / Patty Bode
- III: To make sense of the world
- Looking back in wonder / Sandra Jenoure
- Teaching to affirm / Stephen Gordon
- Teaching through light and darkness / Katina Papson
- Teaching as a spiritual journey / Ambrizeth Lima
- Being on a moving train / Ayla Gavins
- Teaching outside the lines / Elaine Stinson
- IV: To help students name and claim the world
- Teaching for empowerment, love, and mentorship / Kristen B. French
- The colors and strands of teaching / Melinda Pellerin-Duck
- Opening their eyes to a new and bigger world / Yahaira D. Marquez
- Teaching to engage / Beth Wohlleb Adel
- Teaching means taking risks / Nina Tepper
- Always another beginning / Seth Peterson
- V: To become more fully human
- Saving the world one child at a time / Mary Ginley
- Confessions of an underperforming teacher / Bill Dunn
- Becoming a life-toucher / Kerri Warfield
- "...We shall have to begin with the children / Mary Cowhey
- VI: Qualities of caring and committed teachers.