Notes on Teaching: A Short Guide to an Essential Skill
"I can't believe how much teaching wisdom is stuffed into this short (and beautiful) little book.  So much truth and inspiration!"  —Wendy Kopp, founder, Teach For America"This deft little book gives professionals—new and old—a quiet moment to ready themselves for the rollercoaster ride of teaching—and will spark great ideas for the classroom."   —Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone"Notes on Teaching, with its comprehensive collection of pithy and perspective-altering advice, is the perfect reminder to leaders that to teach is to lead and to lead is to teach."  —Jack Covert, founder and president, 800CEOREAD, and coauthor,The 100 Best Business Books of All Time"[This book] is the help you had hoped to get from your teachers college but didn't. It is the mentor you wished for but never had. It is pithy, funny, practical and—mainly—wise." —Marc Tucker, President of the National Center on Education and the Economy"Notes on Teachingis like eating potato chips: You can’t read just one note. What really makes me mad is that so much of what I regard as my special knowledge as a school consultant is right here, available to everyone, almost for free. Damn!" —Michael Thompson, PhD, coauthor,Raising CainandThe Pressured Child"Chock-full of incisive advice and words of wisdom presented in numbered (184 to be precise), easy-to-digest suggestions, this book is a source of inspiration and guidance that teachers can turn to again and again."  —School Library Journal(August 2011)"In the face of the immense criticism teachers have been getting as public employees and scrutiny they are under in this country, now is the time to rally around teachers, to help them succeed in their never-ending quest to reach each student in some small or big way.Notes on Teachingcan do just that." —www.800CEORead.com (July 2011)"This work is best for beginning teachers . . . but even veteran educators may stumble upon new ideas or find reinforcement of their current methods of teaching." —Library Journal(July 2011)