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Title: What It Means to Be a Teacher: The Reality and Gift of Teaching
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Education
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| What It Means to Be a Teacher: The Reality and Gift of Teaching by Rowman & Littlefield Education A Surprising Read | | This is a compelling read for teachers (past, present or aspiring), parents, former students and school administrators. Michael Gose is refreshingly honest in describing the challenges, successes and failures of this difficult profession. The book offers a series of moving and hilarious and somethimes embarrassing anecdotes about his interactions with students, parents and sometimes antagonistic administrators. What a life and what a sacred responsibility! Part social worker, counsellor, minister, friend, police officer, entertainer and medic, teachers are on the front line and engaged in a constantly mutating set of duties with difficult and fuzzy boundaries. But Gose describes his life as a teacher with humility and pride and most importantly, with love. Read this book! | | What It Means to Be a Teacher: The Reality and Gift of Teaching by Rowman & Littlefield Education This book keeps it real: A must read for teachers and parents. | | This book keeps it real. Gose sees teaching not only as a profession, but as a heuristic journey full of life's joys and pains, and he keeps you guessing about what you would have done in the his shoes...This book is about getting to know a profession that is a lot more complicated than most people realize. Gose's stories always seem to startle, puzzle, and awe and give you 'membership' into a mysterious profession full of the most important lessons in life... Gose's stories offer the richest details so that you can make them your own and imagine that you had experienced them first-hand. You feel that you gain years of teaching experience as you live vicariously through the eyes of a down-to-earth, charismatic teacher. His stories from the classroom teach you not only about becoming a great teacher but also about taking small steps to becoming an even better person. |
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