Download or read book A Tribute to Teachers written by Richard Lederer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheering on the true heroes of the classroom, this collection sings a chorus of praise to those who change our lives one day and one lesson at a time. Readers will meet great teachers throughout history, as well as educators captured in literature, film, and comic strips. Offering compelling statistics that prove teachers really do make a difference in the English, math, history, and science classrooms, A Tribute to Teachers celebrates the most unheralded, exhausting, income-challenged, and ultimately rewarding of all professions. Chapters include: "The Private Live of Real Teachers "A Teacher's Dictionary" "Students Say the Darnedest Things" "A Gallery of Great Teachers" "Teachers' Advice to Students" "A Remarkable School" "Hysterical History" "A Teacher's Legacy" Book jacket.
Download or read book Teachers written by John Sibley Yow and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of them aren't famous, but the work they do makes them heroes. These are the teachers who encourage, enlighten, and inspire their young charges every day. In this celebration of the world's second-oldest profession, photographer Gary Firstenburg and writer John Yow have captured the guiding spirit of these special people.Teachers highlights a broad range of uniquely dedicated and creative professionals and covers the education landscape from inner-city public schools to university campuses. Superb photographs, compelling stories, and an elegant design combine to make this a rare and much-deserved tribute to teachers everywhere.
Download or read book Let Me Hold You Longer written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Tyndale House Pub. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text encourages parents to savor not only their children's "firsts"--like first steps and first words--but the "lasts" as well.
Download or read book Great South African Teachers written by Jonathan D. Jansen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who let the children in their classes down, this book shows that this is not the whole picture; it is a celebration of heroic teachers who have struggled against great odds to give their students a chance of success. Great South African Teachers celebrates the massive contribution of remarkable teachers, both past and present, working in South African schools. The stories, sent in by over 100 South Africans in response to advertisements placed in the Sunday Times, pay tribute to teachers who have changed lives through their passion for their subject, their dedication to the dignity of the teaching profession, and above all their determination to see the children in their classes succeed. The contributions reflect the full range of South African schools -- rich schools, poor schools, white schools under apartheid, black schools under apartheid, urban schools and rural schools, schools today and schools in the past. And the contributors come from varied backgrounds: privileged children exposed to the realities of apartheid South Africa through their teachers, poor children motivated to work to break the bonds of poverty, angry children and shy children, bright children stretched to achieve their full potential and others taught the value of hard work in the pursuit of success. Jonathan Jansen, assisted by Lihlumelo Toyana and Nangamso Koza, introduces the collection of contributions with a thought-provoking commentary on the lessons to be learnt from the tributes. Jansen identifies seven types of inspiring teacher, showing how each type works differently to bring out the best in the children in their charge. Great South African Teachers thanks our inspiring teachers and hopes to motivate the next generation of teachers to dedicate themselves to changing lives, to changing the future. All the royalties from this book go towards pre-service teacher bursaries at universities in South Africa. The first recipient of a bursary funded by the royalties from this book is currently studying for his Bachelor of Education degree at the University of the Free State. He will be the first graduate in his family.
Download or read book I Remember My Teacher written by David Shribman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a year writer David Shribman questioned virtually everyone he encountered about the role teachers had played in their lives. The result is this extrordinary collection of personal remembrances of teachers, relayed by people from all walks of life. Readers will be inspired by the Montreal bookseller whose math teacher taught statistics using cards and dice, by the second-grade teacher who let a young George Stephanopoulos go to the library whenever he was bored in class, and by Sister Patricia, a favorite teacher of former Secretary Of Labor Alexis Herman, who once told her, "You can fly, by that cocoon has to go." These 365 short testimonials offer a tribute to teachers for each day of the year. With accounts from Geena Davis, Clarence Thomas, Norman Schwarzkopf, and others, I Remember My Teacher... will move readers with inspiring stories of their most influential teachers, professors, and coaches.
Download or read book Anguished English written by Richard Lederer and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.
Download or read book I Am a Teacher written by David M. Marquis and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her are some of America's most extraordinary teachers, in their own words & in 70 stunning duotone photos. They come from all 50 states, from public, private, & parochial schools, & they teach a wide range of subject areas at every level from kindergarten through high school. The teachers present an inspiring portrait of their profession; their passionate commitment to teaching practically jumps from the page. They speak candidly & perceptively about the schools in which they teach & about administrators, respect for teachers, the call for accountability & national standards for teachers, & the role of parents.
Download or read book Teacher written by Running Press and published by Running Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching tribute to both teaching and learning, this little book of quotes celebrates the beauty of learning and the profound relationship between teacher and student. Includes a dangling apple charm on a ribbon bookmark. A great graduation day gift!
Download or read book What Teachers Make written by Taylor Mali and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In praise of the greatest job in the world... The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever. Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, perceptive look at life in the classroom pays tribute to the joys of teaching…and explains why teachers are so vital to our society. What Teachers Make is a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America—and everybody who’s ever loved or learned from one.
Download or read book The Teachers March written by Sandra Neil Wallace and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book ° Booklist Editors' Choice ° Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Finalist ° A Notable Book for a Global Society ★ "An alarmingly relevant book that mirrors current events." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March. Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today.
Download or read book Teachers Are Special written by Nancy Burke and published by . This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO EDUCATE, ENCOURAGE, AND INSPIRE All of us can recall a certain teacher--a very special someone--who inspired us to learn. This person is usually a school teacher, but may also be a coach, mentor, parent or friend. Teachers come in many shapes and sizes, but what is it that makes one great? This book gives many answers to this question, from many sources. It includes quotes from famous thinkers, leaders and speakers, as well as letters from little known--yet highly insightful--students and teachers. You will find these comments fun, inspirational and even powerful! This tribute to and for teachers celebrates the special, and often heroic, role they play in their students' lives. Teachers work for love, not money. Yet they often receive too little reimbursement in the form of our gratitude. "Teachers are Special" is created as a simple way of saying "Thank you" to our most inspiring teachers. Offer it as a gift to a special educator, or read it to remind yourself of the value of learning.
Download or read book Those Who Teach Do More written by Linda Evanchyk and published by 1st Book Library. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a writer of romance and a gentle singer of Celtic music; he was a rock star. He had lived for years in the seamy world of L.A. rock and roll; she had grown up in the shelter of the mountains of Idaho. She was young and lovely; he still turned heads with his long hair and good looks even though he was old enough to be her father. He had a daughter who wouldn't stand for another woman in his life; she shied away from the predatory men she met in this business. Could they possibly have any less in common or more strikes against them? Well, for Marian, the greatest impediment was that he was married. Thrown together on a concert tour, the attraction between them was impossible to ignore as they both remembered an encounter two years earlier when she had been in over her head and he had rescued her from a harrowing situation and neither of them had been able to forget it. Slowly he reached out to her again, and slowly she learned to trust, until she found herself Loving Andy. But even though love can be profound, obstacles can be also. And sometimes, they can seem insurmountable. Sometimes choices must be made, and sometimes . . . love is not enough. But when love is real, when the heart is steadfast, can love overcome in the end?
Download or read book Rupture and Reconstruction written by Haym Soloveitchik and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as ‘the swing to the right’, a marked increase in ritual stringency, a rupture in patterns of behaviour that has had major consequences not only for Jewish society but also for the nature of Jewish spirituality. For Haym Soloveitchik, the key feature at the root of this change is that, as a result of migration to the ‘New Worlds’ of England, the US, and Israel and acculturation to its new surroundings, American Jewry—indeed, much of the Jewish world— had to reconstruct religious practice from normative texts: observance could no longer be transmitted mimetically, on the basis of practices observed in home and street. In consequence, behaviour once governed by habit is now governed by rule. This new edition allows the author to deal with criticisms raised since the essay, long established as a classic in the field, was originally published, and enables readers to gain a fuller perspective on a topic central to today’s Jewish world and its development.
Download or read book You Moved My Life written by Viney Kirpal and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty stories from accomplished CEOs, vice presidents, scientists, doctors, civil servants, writers, and educators pay tribute to the enduring influence of great teachers in this collection. Through the profiles of elementary, middle, and high school teachers as well as college professors, a portrait of a dedicated, devoted teacher emerges that eclipses individual accounts. The courage, compassion, empathy, love, and creativity that excellent teachers express inspires grateful students to bear witness to the lifelong effects of having extraordinary role models. Teachers, students, and parents will enjoy the thoughtful, touching stories in this collection.
Download or read book Ordinary People Extraordinary Teachers The Heroes Of Real India written by S. Giridhar and published by Westland. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book ‘Two classrooms in this school double up as a night hostel for students whose parents migrate seasonally so that they do not miss school.’ For a large majority of Indian children, their only chance of an education is the government school. For nearly two decades, S. Giridhar has been crisscrossing the country in the course of his work with the Azim Premji Foundation, travelling to remote corners and observing the public education system. In these years, he has met hundreds of government school teachers—profoundly committed to improving the lives of the children in their care. These are teachers who defy all constraints because of a burning belief that every child can learn. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Teachers has emerged from Giridhar’s in-depth study of these inspirational teachers and the ecosystem they function in. Innovative and creative, dogged and resourceful, firm and kind—the government school teacher wears many a hat. This book is a tribute to their commitment and resilience.
Download or read book Learning on Other People s Kids written by Barbara Torre Veltri and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers. Previously unanswered questions are addressed: Why do recent college graduates apply to Teach For America? How are they recruited, trained, and hired? How do they learn the culture (s) of the community, schools, grade level, curriculum, and children they teach? Is there a “culture” of the TFA organization? What recommendations do they offer to TFA donors, policy-makers, future corps members and the public? Woven into this book, are perspectives from mentors who worked alongside TFAers, administrators who hired them, corporate C.E.O.’s who supported them, and policies (both local and national) that privileged TFA over non-TFA teachers. Finally, a compelling series of eyewitness narratives introduces each chapter’s theme, documented from the author’s own, “Notes from the Field.” These accounts offer rich, descriptive vignettes that present the challenges TFAers faced, as they occurred. Schools reflect the multitiered and often non-level playing field that comprises America’s educational landscape. Learning on Other People’s Kids: Becoming a Teach For America Teacher provides readers a glimpse into the corps member experience in a rare ethnographic account.
Download or read book Teachers are Special written by Nancy Burke and published by Gramercy Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repackaged in a colorful, eye-catching jacket, this inspirational, bestselling quote book makes the perfect gift for the special people in our lives. All of us can recall a certain teacher—a very special someone—who inspired us to learn. This person is usually a school teacher, but may also be a coach, mentor, parent, or friend. Teachers come in many shapes and sizes, but what is it that makes one great? This book gives many answers to this question, from many sources. It includes quotes from famous thinkers, leaders and speakers, as well as letters from little known—yet highly insightful—students and teachers. You will find these comments fun, inspirational and even powerful! This tribute to and for teachers celebrates the special, and often heroic, role they play in their students' lives. Teachers work for love, not money. Yet they often receive too little reimbursement in the form of our gratitude.Teachers Are Specialis created as a simple way of saying "Thank you" to our most inspiring teachers. Offer it as a gift to a special educator, or read it to remind yourself of the value of learning.
