Skip to content

Conversations with Great Teachers

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 025322361X

ISBN-13: 9780253223616

Edition: 2011

Authors: Bill Smoot

List price: $19.95
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Bill Smoot teaches English at the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California, where he has received the Outstanding Teacher Award.

Introduction
Teaching in the School Room
John Faggi, prep-school English teacher
Lynette Wayne, first-grade teacher
Steven Levy, fourth-grade teacher
Kathleen Engle, middle-school physical-education teacher
Deirdre Grode, seventh- and eighth-grade language arts and social studies teacher
Paul Karafiol, high-school math teacher
Mike Auerbach, high-school biology and chemistry teacher
David Lazerson, special-education teacher
Teaching in the College Classroom
Eric Mazur, physics professor
Ellen Peffley, horticulture professor
Father Thomas Buckley, theology professor
William Gass, philosophy professor
Susan Moeller, journalism professor
Jack Metzgar, teacher, adult education
Teaching the Healers
Leslie Hilger, teacher of residents in dermatology
Allan Friedman, professor, undergraduates and neurosurgery residents
Craig Campbell, teacher, psychiatry residents
Teaching the Creators and Performers
Alexandre Sacha Pavlata, teacher, circus arts
Suki Schorer, ballet teacher
Keith Carter, photography teacher
David Kelsey, piano and voice teacher
Lan Samantha Chang, creative writing teacher
Martin Landau, acting teacher
Teaching the Fixers and Makers
Kina McAfee, instructor, apprentice carpenter program
Ralph Salemme, high-school teacher, heating and plumbing
Dieter Schorner, professor of baking and pastry arts
Doug Butler, teacher of farriery
Teaching the Athletes
Tom Nordland, teacher of basketball shooting
Arthur Lane, fencing teacher
Mike Hileman, alligator wrestling trainer
Mark Wolocatiuk, racecar driving instructor
Ron Washington, major league baseball manager
Growing the Body and Spirit
Lokita Carter, Tantra teacher
Jan Chozen Bays, Zen teacher
Robert Smith, professor, divinity school
Catherine Rose, exotic dance teacher
Tlahuitollini (Ernesto Col�n �lvarez), Spanish teacher, Aztec dance teacher
Teaching at the Bottom and on the Edge
Jeannette Riley, teacher, the Clemente Program
Betty Martin, teacher in women's prison
Shaina Traisman, meditation and yoga teacher in jails and prisons
Rhodessa Jones, teacher in women's jails
Teaching the Protectors
Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Fuson, drill instructor, Marine Corps
Rob Magao, martial-arts teacher to civilians and law enforcement personnel
Vince Dunn, teacher of firefighting
Kathy Mitchell, teacher, FBI Academy
Teaching in the Corridors of Power
Michael Ansa, corporate consultant
Emil Jones, political mentor
Michael Bell, corporate consultant
Hannah Riley Bowles, professor, executive education programs
George Shultz, political mentor
David King, director, Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress
Acknowledgments