To Become a Teacher Making a Difference in Children's Lives

Name: To Become a Teacher Making a Difference in Children's Lives
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ISBN: 9780807734551

ISBN-10: 0807734551

ISBN-13: 9780807734551

Edition: 1995

Authors: William. Ayers

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Contributors include Nancy Balaban, Lisa Delpit, Hubert Dyasi, Helen Featherstone and colleagues, Joseph Featherstone, Maxine Greene, Mary Anne Raywid, Rita Tenorio, and Lillian Weber, among others.

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 6/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

William Ayers is Professor at the College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago. His recent publications include Race Course Against White Supremacy (with Bernadine Dohrn) and the Handbook of Social Justice in Education (with Therese Quinn and David Stovall).



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Joining the Ranks


Letter to a Young Teacher


Taking Teaching Seriously


I Just Want to Be Myself: Discovering What Students Bring to School "In Their Blood"


Seeing the Child, Knowing the Person


Choosing a Past and Inventing a Future: The Becoming of a Teacher


A Teacher's Awesome Power


Get Ready, Get Set, Teach!


Reconstruction Alternatives: Opening the Curriculum


Building a Safe Community for Learning


Harout and I: A Short Story for the Becoming Teacher


Reexaminations: What Is the Teacher and What Is Teaching?


Is There Room for Children's Inventive Capacity in the Curriculum?


Democratic Classrooms, Democratic Schools


The Complexity of Teaching


How to Write a Lesson Plan


The Scary Part Is That It Happens Without Us Knowing


Conclusion: Ten Alternative Classrooms


Appendix A Getting a Life: A New Teacher's Guide


Appendix B Selected Resources for Becoming Teachers


About the Editor and the Contributors


Index