Teaching the Accepted Methods of Your Profession: The Teacher as Risk Taker.

Duke, Leona R.

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ERIC Number: EJ339910

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1986

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Teaching the Accepted Methods of Your Profession: The Teacher as Risk Taker.

Duke, Leona R.

English Journal, v75 n5 p53-55 Sep 1986

Criticizes school policies that hamper teachers' use of new methods such as journal writing and reader response to literature because these methods have caused criticism of teachers and school administrators. Concludes that students have a right to ideas, good teaching, sharing, mistakes, and trust. (SRT)

Descriptors: Censorship, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy, Expository Writing, Reader Response, Risk, Secondary Education, Student School Relationship, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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