The teachable moment
Subtitle: seizing the instants when children learn
By: Rebecca Branstetter, editor
Publisher: Kaplan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781427799678
Subjects: Teaching
Description: "In this candid collection, [the author] brings together the voices of educators who strive every day for these breakthrough moments.  They share their triumphs, as well as their frustrations.  One teacher envisions her 12th grade English students hopping on desks and quoting poetry, Dead Poet's Society-style, only to be confronted with the reality that her students can barely read Whitman.  Another teacher works to find an inner mathematician in a student better known for his detention attendance.  From the poignant to the hilarious, these essays take us into the classroom and give us hope that there's a teachable moment out there for all of us."--From back cover.
Table of contents: title: In search of the academic "aha!"; title: Teaching is hard / Mrs. Mimi; title: Alleviating shakes-fear / Damian Bariexca; title: An ode to small victories / Valerie Braimah; title: The noun lesson / Tisha Riccio; title: Trickery in history / Tiffany Grizzle; title: I'm good at this stuff! / Vicki Lautsch; title: The art of the relationship in teaching. The day Austin found his inside voice / "Miss D"; title: From Tennessee, here to model / Sheri A. Castro-Atwater; title: How the sperm gets to the egg / Lin Cerles; title: I'm not doin' any work today! / Randy Howe; title: The gift of literacy / Erika Childs; title: Reaching the special-needs student. The unexpected joys of teaching / Jill Hare; title: Ryan's fragility / Jan Hasler; title: The square dude / Sam Janeway; title: From station time to mother's day: tales of teaching first words / Amber Mackenzie Taylor; title: Which fraction does the alligator eat? / Elisabeth Berkson; title: The teacher becomes the student.; title: It's what you answer to / Susan DeMersseman; title: Getting another chance / Kathy A. Briccetti; title: The field trip / Rosemary Taylor; title: The good, the bad, and the crazy / Alistair Bomphray; title: Taming the wild dinosaur / Rebecca Branstetter; title: The bodyguard / Shawna Messina.