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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: After teaching 10th grade English for 8 years, I was beginning to feel like I need some inspiration to recapture my love of the profession. This book made me remember why I love teaching. Burke does a remarkable job providing strategies for both the novice and veteran teacher. The strategies provided can be used or adjusted easily for all levels and disciplines. I am in the midst of rewrting some lessons and plan on using many of Burke's ideas in my classroom.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: After teaching 10th grade English for 8 years, I was beginning to feel like I need some inspiration to recapture my love of the profession. This book made me remember why I love teaching. Burke does a remarkable job providing strategies for both the novice and veteran teacher. The strategies provided can be used or adjusted easily for all levels and disciplines. I am in the midst of rewrting some lessons and plan on using many of Burke's ideas in my classroom.
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Summary: A Great Teaching Tool!
Review: As a new middle school teacher, this book truly came in handy. Granted, Mr. Burke is a high school teacher and his insights are related to his high school classroom, I was able to garner much information for my own middle school classroom. If you are within the middle school or high school environment, this is a great resource!!!
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Summary: Perfect for English Teachers
Review: As a second year teacher, I have been stressing about my teaching style and what I want my classroom to be. This book is an immense help. The reading is straight forward and informative. Chapter 9 is great! If you need justification for teaching grammar or vocabulary this book really helps and it gives concrete ideas and examples for the teacher who needs plans for her classroom. It's a good buy!
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Summary: one for all
Review: I am graduate student and this is one of my textbook. It is great to learn from the real teacher and real experience. There are many useful methods which can use in the real world; not just write beautifully in the book but can't use like others. I highly recommened this book for every new teacher who still has no idea how to achieve your first year in school. Also for all English teachers both in site and outside the US.
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Summary: Don't Hesitate to Buy This Book
Review: I just started my 25th year of teaching and I am always on the lookout for new, fresh ideas. That's exactly what I got in Jim Burke's book. You can tell a teacher wrote it because it is designed to be read a few pages at a time in the teachers' lounge over a cup of coffee. I carry it in my briefcase and pull it out when I'm waiting for the kids at the dentist, during commercials of Indianapolis Colts football games, and waiting in the school parking lot for my daughter after volleyball practice. I've also contacted Jim on several occasions about teaching issues and he is extremely helpful and incredibly responsive. I'm not quite sure how he does all he does. If you are a first year teacher, buy this book. If you're approaching the end of your career, buy this book. If you're somewhere in between, buy this book.
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Summary: Lots of Tips
Review: I liked this book, and I still use it. I'm a teacher, and the suggestions and approaches provided by this book are quite useful in my profession.
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Summary: Don't Hesitate to Buy This Book
Review: In a world of disappointing texts on the nuts and bolts of teaching - Jim Burke's book delivers. I'm a new teacher, and I was given this book by a veteran teacher who considered it the English teacher's bible. She was not far off. I can't recommend this book highly enough as a complete resource for all teachers new and seasoned. With everything from structuring curriculum to bibliographies for further reading, I can't have asked for a better prep as I enter the world of teaching. I am infinitely grateful to Mr. Burke for his hard work in producing this magnum opus.
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Summary: A must for all English teachers
Review: Simply put-this is the English teacher's bible. Put it on your desk and read some part of it every day. Your students (and administrators) will thank you for it. If you teach English, then you must own everything that Jim Burke writes.
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Summary: This book has it all
Review: This book was recommended to me by one of my directing teachers after attending a seminar taught by the author. This book is an absolutely RICH guide and "companion" (very informal and user friendly) for the new (or experienced) English Teacher. I cannot recommend it more strongly. The author includes copious examples from his own teaching experience at Burlingame High School as well as abundant references to sources. This book is as good as it gets for new English teachers. The book has exhaustive chapters on teaching reading, writing, speaking, listening and thinking, composing a curriculum, measuring student progress, digital literacy, media literacy, issues in teaching English, getting a teaching job in English, organizing, the politics of education, etc. These are very broad areas which are covered in detail.
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