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Summary: Hatt-Echeverria's assignment
Review: Ayers approach to teaching is holistic and densely worded. He is a true veteran of the academic trenches having taught for almost 40 years at every level from K to college. He shows the utmost respect and concern for his students. Inextricable from his profession and unshakable in his conviction about what is greatness in teaching.
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Summary: Insightful Reading for All Educators
Review: Ayers takes us on a journey unlike any other yet, with glimpses of ourselves as students and as teachers. Concepts, ideas and rememberances encapsulated in this book reveal the heart of a teacher who recognizes his own imperfections and shares his lessons learned. This book is insightful, intellectual reading that I would recommend to parents of school-aged children, prospective teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers and teacher-educators. This is a book I believe will become a teaching classic. Reading this book and Crossing Over Canaan will give readers some real-life insights of what it means to be a teachers in public schools. This is an excellent book!
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Summary: Teaching Tips from a Terrorist
Review: I am taking teacher certification classes and this book was assigned reading in a class which discussed what it means to be a teacher. On the positive side, there are a few helpful, practical ideas for the classroom teacher, and a few insights that any teacher should ponder (i.e. how should we as teachers view our students). That being said, however, it really galls me that I had to buy this book and contribute to the wealth of a cynical, unrepentant terrorist and then read page after page on how caring he is, how insightful, how gentle. It makes me tired and irritated. Surely there must be better books out there on teaching.
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Summary: good book
Review: I recommend the book To Teach the journey of a teacher. The book gives great ideas of different styles of teaching and how to interact differently with students (a teacher can also be a friend and a teacher to a student). The book also gives ideas of how the enviroment of the classroom can enhance students learning process.
It also touches on a touchy subject with standarized tests and how they aren't fair, because the diversity of the United States and its students.
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Summary: A must read for every teacher
Review: I recommend this book to any individual entering the field of education. No, other book gives such brilliant ideas for reform in the area of public education. The book is full of ideas allowing for every teacher to become more involved with their students, communities, and school corporations. A definite necessity needed for the classroom for all beginning teachers.
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Summary: A must read for every teacher
Review: I would recommend this book to any teacher who wishes to learn more ways to reach his or her students. The emphasis is placed on how to teach each child as an individual rather than as a mass of faceless test scores. Even if you don't walk away with all the answers, it gives you plenty of tools to develop your own.
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Summary: Teaching the Individual
Review: I would recommend this book to any teacher who wishes to learn more ways to reach his or her students. The emphasis is placed on how to teach each child as an individual rather than as a mass of faceless test scores. Even if you don't walk away with all the answers, it gives you plenty of tools to develop your own.
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Summary: Enlightenment
Review: I would recommmend this book to all future and current educators. It enlightens the reader with both knowledge and compassion. The author goes deep into the heart of education and gives examples that are actually useful in the classroom. This book has also earned a spot of my personal "good education" book list because it was written by a teacher who knows the system, the students, and the career.
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Summary: Some hero!
Review: It beggars belief that an unrepentant home-grown terrorist--a man who dedicated himself to the violent overthrow of a free society (imperfect, yes, but far preferable to anything else in the real world)should be presented as some kind of model for the young. Ayers has never apologized for the ugly murderous counsel he offered the young in his previous incarnation--and now he presumes to tell us something about teaching? What kind of idiocy is it that leads anyone to take him seriously? His book, like his life, is an embarrassment and, after the horrors of September 11, a disgrace. Reason and decency should prevail over the kind of Utopian ideology that leads terrorists to believe their vision should be enforced by violence.
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Summary: A must for all those directly involved in education.
Review: Rarely does a book change your perspective on a subject and then provide you with on-going thoughts that then change you, especially books written about education. This one does. It is a must for all those involved in education that wish to further their view of creating learning environments for meaningful lessons. Teachers, preservice teachers, and teacher educators will benefit from this wonderful read. Ayers lifts the words off the page, tranforming them into carefully composed lyrics that are obviously written by a teacher who cares for the well-being of children in today's world.If you like kids, you'll like what you read in this book. If you want to improve your teaching, you'll receive some great ideas for doing so; expect no recipes or prescriptions, though, because this journey begins with you. Don't miss this opportunity.
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