Letters to a TeacherGrove Press, 1962 - 168 pagine Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten graceful yet conversational letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always elucidating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of school and universities. His priceless, homespun observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all dynamic. This is an indispensable guide for teachers and laymen alike. |
Sommario
Introduction | 1 |
The Teachers Life | 11 |
The Good Teacher | 35 |
Qualities of a Teacher | 55 |
Words | 81 |
Interests | 107 |
Truth | 129 |
Plans | 153 |
Pressure | 175 |
Requirements | 201 |
Last Thoughts | 225 |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
adults answered asked assignments athletic attended become began bunga Carthage chil child classroom Connecticut course Dead Poets Society DEAR TEACHER dent desk dren elementary and high Eliza English essay forget Francis Gainesboro girl grade graduate hand high school honor code hope important John Locke lessons letter lives look math matter ment mind Miss Montgomery Bell Academy morning mother National Wildlife Federation never once papers parents person Pickering played poem Price Waterhouse recounted resemble SAM PICKERING semester Smith County Sollows someone sometimes split infinitives started stop story Syria talk taught teaching tell tests things thought Titmouse told truth Twinkie Vicki Vicki's father woman wonderful words write wrote young