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Summary: This is a wonderful book for educators
Review: This book can be very useful to educators. You can get a real feel of how teaching can be. It is not always easy. You have many conflicts that you may have to face. There may be times were you have to be a parent to your students by always having to discipline them. Teaching is not for everyone you really have to have your whole heart into the job. This book helps give the real picture for teaching.
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Summary: An excellant book for anyone but especially for teachers.
Review: An easy book to read. Very interesting and motivating for someone entering the teaching field. The book is not biased. I would recommend the book to anyone. I enjoyed the creativity the teacher used in her teaching style. I think everybody can learn something from this book. It's great!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I had to read this book for an education class.I was not sure what to expect but was pleasantly suprised.The book gave great insight into what teaching in a diversy society is all about. It made you understand what kids today were up against. The book is written in the form of a novel and makes for great reading.
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Summary: Among Schoolchildren is an inspirational book
Review: Among Schoolchildren is a very inspirational book for future educators. It is easy to read. It deal s with the day to day activity of teaching and the highs and lows of being a teacher. I recommend this book to anyone who plans on teaching elementary school. END
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Summary: An excellent in depth look at the processes of being a teach
Review: Among Schoolchildren is a invaluable resource for up and coming teachers. It takes a look at the feelings and emotions of one school teacher in a low income community. Through the trials of the class rooms activities the reader comes to know the children, and their lifestyle. Becoming familiar with the class bully, and the hard working not so smart boy is half the books fun. There is also the smart, pretty girl, and the withdrawn shy children who interact with the class in their own way. I would recommend this book for education majors. It has become a staple book at teachers conventions all over.
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Summary: Great insight into students needs and the classroom
Review: This book is a valuable tool for anyone dealing with students, whether a teacher or a parent. The interaction between the teacher and her students made you aware how difficult a job teaching really is. The patience and skill in being able to reach a child, to open up their minds for learning and to motivate them to want to learn is a big task that many of us would find overwhelming. If we could all watch and observe our children in the class room, I am sure we would have a great amount of admiration for the professionals who are teaching our children. Not everyone can be a teacher. It takes a person with special skills to take a child and help mold them into a person who can suceessfully fit into the classroom and in society. A teacher has a lot of responsibility and because they spend a third of the days hours with our children, more than most parents do, they have the potential to do great things. The book shows just how society can affects those we teach and the problems teachers are faced with in the classroom. I certainly can recommend this book to anyone who cares about children.
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Summary: This book shows what it means to really love teaching.
Review: I am a student at Macon State College and am majoring in education. I recently read "Amoung Schoolchildren" by Tracy Kidder. This book was great. It realy influenced me a great deal in terms of wanting to become a techer. This teacher showed what it really means to have a true love for teaching. She was strict, had control over her class, but at the same time showed love and concern to each and every student. She loved and cared for her class. She cared about their future and she definitely had an impact on those childrens lives. This book gives a good role model of what a teacher should be.
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Summary: This book is a positive learning tool for future educators
Review: I found Among School Children to be easy reading. The contents of the information told in a story form from a day to day basis made it easier to follow and understand the different concepts and learning techniques in elementary education. I most enjoyed the way the author shared the highs and lows of being a teacher. I recommend this book to all who are teaching and those who might be contemplating it. MISSOURI
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Summary: Among Schoolchildren is desperately needed inspiration.
Review: Tracy Kidder's Among Schoolchildren presents a teachers
life through the eyes of an elementary school teacher in
the flats of Holyoke, MA, a neighborhood with a rich cultural
history (and present), but underfunded schools. Kidder augments snapshots from the classroom with the personal history of the protagonist, Mrs. Zajac.
Though not a flashy book, nor a rousing political diatribe
in the "savage inequalities" vein, Among Schoolchildren presents a moving look at life in a particular place by
building out from the life of one schoolteacher. The
organization is seamless and the history both well-researched
and emotionally appealing. Anybody who teaches will draw
inspiration from this book; anybody who doesn't teach will
want to teach after reading this book.
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Summary: A real insight into education
Review: I felt like I was in the classroom with Mrs. Zajac. Tracy Kidder describes a real teacher and her students and takes the reader with them through the school year. The descriptions of the students brought them to reality for me. I did not want to put the book down. Kidder related the problems as well as the successes in the classroom. Zajac is the kind of teacher that a parent would want their child to have. Kidder brings to light the personalities and problems that a teacher has to deal with on a day to day basis. The reader appreciates that a teacher does not only teach basic skills and knowledge, but also must nuture and deal with children who come to the classroom with a lot of baggage. Anyone interested in education would appreciate this book.
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