Exit Narratives

Reflections of Four Retired Teachers

By (author) Nathalis G. Wamba, Ursula Foster, Elena Davis, Jackquelynn Jones, Barbara Storck

Not available to order

Publication date:

14 June 2010

Length of book:

160 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761851165

Exit Narratives examines what constitutes good teaching and engaged learning and how to use this knowledge to support teachers in their efforts to create learning environments that encourage academic mastery and nourish students as social beings. The authors explore a range of issues: why they became teachers, their first years of teaching, what worked for them, the micropolitics of teacher interactions, becoming proficient teachers, as well as their last year of teaching and what they did next. These former teachers took a stand in their careers to create a better environment for both teaching and learning.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Competent Teacher
Chapter 4 2. Why Me?
Chapter 5 3. My First Year Teaching
Chapter 6 4. What Worked for Me?
Chapter 7 5. The Cautionary Tales
Chapter 8 6. Becoming a Competant Teacher
Chapter 9 7. My Last Year Teaching
Chapter 10 8. My First Year Out
Chapter 11 9. Conclusion
Chapter 12 10. Reflection
Chapter 13 Epilogue: Students We Remember
Chapter 14 References

?a definite major contribution to our understanding of what makes great teachers and how to structure student centered classroom that excites and engages students and their parents in learning. By releasing teachers voices-willingness to break the silence —- the text challenges and explodes the myth of the anti-intellectual teacher by the reader journeying with teachers way beyond the drab dribble of professional staff underdevelopment to becoming warrior intellectual in charge of their own destinies thus laying a foundation for student emulation. It also reveals teachers as life long learners and the insatiable thirst for knowledge...