Twenty Teachers / Edition 1

by Ken Macrorie

Overview

The rare and exceptional teacher—one who could teach absolutely anything to anybody—is what Ken Macrorie set out to find among teachers of many different subjects at many different levels. The result of his search is 20 Teachers, a collection of revealing profiles in which outstanding educators explain what works for them in the classroom and why. Macrorie's interviews with these professionals show an astonishing similarity in their beliefs, methods, and attitudes and the keys to their success with students from first grade to the graduate level.
Ranging from a woodworking instructor in a wealthy suburban school to an inner-city history teacher to a professor of space engineering, the teachers profiled here share a fundamental belief in putting choice and responsibility in the hands of their students, no matter what their age. Macrorie includes, in addition to the interviews, a summary chapter listing 43 items these teachers claim help learners to do "good works." Finally, in an "Open Letter About Schools," he explores the notion that schools have developed, often unwittingly, traditions that run counter to the way these educators work; he discusses the obstacles they face, from both within the system and without.
Twenty Teachers offers insights that will enable others to inspire learning in their students and voices a new and challenging view of today's educational system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195049824
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/16/1987
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	539,995
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.53(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Ken Macrorie is Emeritus Professor of English at Western Michigan University and a staff member at the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, Vermont. He is author of Uptaught and Telling Writing and a number of other books.

Table of Contents

1.	Woodworking, Prep School	3
2.	Writing, High School	11
3.	Physical Education, Elementary School	23
4.	Literature, High School	31
5.	"Remedial" English, University	39
6.	English as a Second Language, College	49
7.	Mathematics, College	61
8.	Environmental Studies, University	71
9.	Reading, Elementary School	79
10.	Photography, University	93
11.	Literature, College	101
12.	Speech Therapy, University	113
13.	Social Studies, High School	123
14.	Physics, High School	137
15.	Writing, Elementary School	149
16.	Acting, University	163
17.	Teaching Teachers, Graduate School	175
18.	Aerospace Engineering, University	185
19.	Mathematics and Computers, Private School	201
20.	Soldiering, Army	216
	What Enablers do	229
	Open Letter About Schools	233