For nearly 25 years, the author has driven the highways and back roads of Illinois, teaching dance to school children, leading family programs, performing lecture/demonstrations, and choreographing technically simple, conceptually complex pieces with and for young dancers. The author's home base is Champaign/Urbana (C/U), twin cities with a…

Provides a short summary of the life of an award-winning English teacher. (JL)

Describes the experiences of a U.S. professor of educational theater teaching a week of master classes in drama at the University of Ankara in Turkey. (SR)

This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of fifty new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It highlights the cases of ten, whose stories vividly illustrate the joys and disappointments of new teachers in today's schools. The book documents why they entered teaching, what they encountered in their schools,…

In this essay, Benjamin Endres examines how teaching is caught between the ideals of formal, systemic institutions, on the one hand, and the ideals of more intimate or personal relations, on the other. Endres uses Anthony Giddens's account of "abstract systems" and "pure" relations to suggest that the tension that teachers face is not only the…

Pedagogical inquiry on teaching and learning in higher education is best served by methodological approaches that produce purposeful questions and engage in systematic analysis. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)

This article describes a teacher's experience with a child who had emotional and behavioral problems in the regular classroom. At the beginning of first grade, the student had a negative reputation with the staff based on his previous behavior. The teacher shares ways in which the child was given support in school. Generosity, belonging, mastery,…

In this article, the author recounts her teaching experience with new high school students at Northwest Yeshiva High School, an Orthodox Jewish high school on Mercer Island. In teaching the students about writing, the author describes how she was moved by the narratives written by her students, and that after reading their stories she decided to…

In this article, the author, who is a Muslim English teacher shares her teaching experiences after the events of September 11, 2001 and shares her views on Islam. She points out that her appearance and clothing do not represent oppression and restriction but the liberation of her body from the unwanted gazes of those who reduce women from people…

For the final assessment piece of her Bachelor of Education the author was asked to use the STELLA Standards Framework (Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia) to critically analyse and reflect on personally significant incidents which occurred during her final practicums. The objective was to be able to communicate…

After two years of teaching English, history, and wilderness survival in the Inupiaq Eskimo village of Wales, Alaska, the author moved in Brazil to teach English and Theory of Knowledge in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. His four years of experience at the International School of Curitiba have confirmed his belief that…

Humorously elaborates the vicissitudes of directing a high school play as rite of passage. (JK)

Describes the five stages through which teachers pass in their professional lifetime (the "honeymoon," competence, power, maintenance, and conversion). (RL)

After 25 years as a superintendent, the author decided to teach a high school ethics course on a 6-month sabbatical leave. Teaching three classes invigorated his thinking and reminded him how demanding teaching is. The district did not suffer, as a bond issue passed by a large majority and the administrative cabinet assumed more responsibility and…

Many teachers are frustrated by their students' failure to "get involved," take a stand on an issue, or protest. But faculty members themselves neither model nor teach the importance of dissent for fear that they will be seen as insubordinate or disloyal to their colleges or universities. The simplest way to model dissent is by insisting that…