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Conversations with Great Teachers
Bill Smoot
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Description for Conversations with Great Teachers
paperback. Learning from the best in and out of the classroom Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
In the spirit of Studs Terkel's Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K–12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What are the keys to teaching the joys of literature, shooting a basketball, alligator wrestling, or how to survive one's first year in the U.S. Congress? Smoot's insightful ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223616
SKU
V9780253223616
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99-50
About Bill Smoot
Bill Smoot teaches English at the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California, where he has received the Outstanding Teacher Award.
Reviews for Conversations with Great Teachers
Smoot seeks to capture the universal underpinnings that animate that mysterious mixture of art, science, and intuition that every effective teacher brings to his or her classroom. As these teachers try to describe the ways that they bring their students to understanding, whether that understanding is of history, surgery, acting or prison counseling, one cannot help but be moved by ... Read more