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Author Owens, John, author.

Title Confessions of a bad teacher : the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education / John Owens.

Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2013].

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  371.01 Ow2c 2013    ---  Available
Description xxvi, 244 pages ; 21 cm
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unmediated rdamedia
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-244).
Summary An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late.
Contents Good-bye too soon -- The almighty principal -- Meet the teachers -- My students and me -- The rules -- Classroom management -- What has four wheels and flies? -- Not high school as you remember it -- Teaching, step by step -- Bad moves -- Judgment daze -- Cheaters' paradise -- What I learned -- What we can do.
Subject Public schools -- United States.
Education -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Educational change -- United States.
ISBN 9781402281006 (paperback)
1402281005 (paperback)

 
    
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