The secret lives of teachers
By: Anonymous
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226313627
Subjects: High school teachers; Private schools
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: working propositions; title: School's open; title: Commencing (opening day); title: The teacher within; title: Checking your self (badges of identity); title: Compensations (money, salary, and working conditions); title: Teaching time (seconds to decades); title: Subject matters (the role of academic disciplines); title: Progressive faith (the default philosophy of teachers); title: Among students; title: Name games (the struggle to know one's students); title: Jealousy (dealing with tears); title: Transit (apprehending student lives in motion); title: Gradients (assessments and their pitfalls); title: Romantics (love in various forms); title: Questioning (the role of classroom dialogue); title: Gingerly revising (confronting limits); title: Native intelligence (working with unprepared students); title: (Dangerous) diversity (touchy subjects and hurt feelings); title: Projection (visiting another school); title: Enlarging the world (the struggle to affirm the life of the mind); title: Among parents; title: Parental teaching (the parent-teacher power struggle); title: Home work (managing family management); title: Among colleagues; title: Smart board, dumb teacher (technology and its discontents); title: Positions (conflicts between teachers); title: Among administrators; title: Complaints (the faculty/administration divide); title: Brownie points (problem-solving/student discipline); title: School's close; title: Regraduating (closing the circle).