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I Become a Teacher: A Memoir of One-Room School Life in Eastern Kentucky.

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Williams, Cratis D.; Gifford, James M., Ed. – 1995

This book is a memoir of one-room school life in 1929. In his day, Cratis D. Williams (1911-85) was America's foremost scholar on the Appalachian experience. This book is the story of his first teaching assignment at age 18 in a one-room K-8 school on Caines Creek in Lawrence County, Kentucky. Williams details his classroom practices and…

Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Elementary Education