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High school teaching -- Vermont.
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Keizer, Garret.
Keizer, Garret.
High school teaching -- Vermont.
High school teachers -- Vermont.
Public schools -- Vermont.
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Getting schooled : the reeducation of an American teacher / Garret Keizer.
by
Keizer, Garret.
Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Call #:
373.11 K28g
Subjects
Keizer, Garret.
High
school
teaching
--
Vermont
.
High
school
teachers
--
Vermont
.
Public schools
--
Vermont
.
ISBN:
9780805096439 (hc.)
0805096434 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
302 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as
teaching
. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school--literally--in this account of his return to the same rural
Vermont
high
school
where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then--a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much to increase as to lighten. Telling the story of Keizer's year in the classroom, Getting Schooled takes us everywhere a teacher might go: from field trips to
school
plays to town meetings, from a kid's eureka moment to a parent's dark night of the soul. Keizer exposes the obstacles that teachers face daily--and along the way takes aim at some cherished cant: that public education is doomed, that the heroic teacher is the cure for all that ails education, that educational reform can serve as a cheap substitute for societal reformation."--From publisher.
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