What went right : lessons from both sides of the teacher's desk /

"In What Went Right: Lessons from Both Sides of the Teacher's Desk co-authors Roberta Israeloff and George McDermott resume a conversation they began in 1967--when she was in eleventh grade at Syosset (N.Y.) High School and he was her English teacher. In 2014, after finding each other on F...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Israeloff, Roberta, 1952- (Author), McDermott, George, 1943- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Rowman & Littlefield EBA
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Subjects:	Israeloff, Roberta, > 1952- > Correspondence. McDermott, George, > 1943- > Correspondence. Israeloff, Roberta, > 1952- McDermott, George, > 1943- Teacher-student relationships. Teachers > Conduct of life. EDUCATION / Administration / General. EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions. Records and correspondence. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

I'm hoping that you remember me
The opposite of burnout
Drills and dog clickers
Beneath, beyond, around the corner
To enjoy thinking
It bled into our lives
In the author's hands
The misunderstanding of education
The capacities that define us
There was no end, it seemed
Call it an injustice
The poetry inside us
Thinking about teachers
To take the long view
To reach judgments
Seduced by "observable goals"
How to be human
The best lessons
The crux of the problem
The way we conceptualize the world
The exaltation of ignorance
A hybrid profession
An ongoing, vital conversation.