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What Went Right
Lessons from Both Sides of the Teacher's Desk
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About this book
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 1967āwhen she was in eleventh grade at Syosset (N.Y.) High School and he was her English teacher.
In 2014, after finding each other on Facebook, they began an email correspondenceāas contemporaries, rather than student and teacherāand quickly discovered that neither had ever stopped thinking about that school and the many ways it influenced them.
As they shared their impressions of how and why public education has changed since then, they realized that a single academic year can have a deeper and longer-lasting impact than they had ever imagined.
Personal and probing, evocative and wide-ranging, the letters that compose this book ask and attempt to answer some timelessāand timelyāquestions: What makes a teacher or a class memorable? How can the teacher-student relationship be supported and strengthened? What does being "educated" truly mean? And, perhaps most important, what role can free public education play in sustaining our democracy?
In 2014, after finding each other on Facebook, they began an email correspondenceāas contemporaries, rather than student and teacherāand quickly discovered that neither had ever stopped thinking about that school and the many ways it influenced them.
As they shared their impressions of how and why public education has changed since then, they realized that a single academic year can have a deeper and longer-lasting impact than they had ever imagined.
Personal and probing, evocative and wide-ranging, the letters that compose this book ask and attempt to answer some timelessāand timelyāquestions: What makes a teacher or a class memorable? How can the teacher-student relationship be supported and strengthened? What does being "educated" truly mean? And, perhaps most important, what role can free public education play in sustaining our democracy?
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Iām 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 Authorās 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 āObservable Goalsā
- 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
- Epilogue
- Sources and Suggestions for Additional Reading
- About the Authors