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Meyer, Jim – English Journal, 1999
Relates the experience of a college professor who spent two months as a student teacher in an eighth-grade language arts classroom in an urban public school. Discusses middle school teaching verses college teaching, coming to know the students, discipline, student testing, accountability, teaching writing, the failure of teacher-training programs,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, English Instruction