What Teachers Make In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

Name: What Teachers Make In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
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ISBN: 9780399158544

ISBN-10: 0399158545

ISBN-13: 9780399158544

Edition: 2012

Authors: Taylor Mali

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The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why our society needs them now more than ever. Former middle-school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make-a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Makeis Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today. It's a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America-and everyone who's ever…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction


Making Kids Work Hard


Your Child Is My Student


A Poet Becomes a Teacher (and Vice Versa)


Calling Home


Lightbulb Moments and Happy Accidents


Definitely Beautiful


Keeping Your Eye Out for the Teachable Moment


In Praise of Thoughtful Uncertainty


Encountering Genius


The Student Becomes the Teacher


My Best Day as a Teacher


E-mail, Islam, and Enlightenment (Insha'allah)


Lessons You Can Touch


The Value of What You Cannot Test


No One Leaves My Class Early for Any Reason


My Bad (Apologize and Mean It!)


MEG: Mali's Electronic Grade Book


Teachers Make Technology Work!


Thinking It Through: The Timeline at the Back of the Classroom


What Teachers Get: Presents from Parents


Fighting Back Against the Attack on Teachers


Where Do the Best Teachers End Up?


The Importance of Mentoring


Teachers Who Made a Difference for Me


The Quest for One Thousand Teachers


There Can Never Be a "Lost" Generation


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Note on Poems