Schooled: How the System Breaks Teachers
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (992 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1475169825 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Dalton is now happily employed as a graduate research assistant and PhD student in a laboratory that studies chronic disease. Dalton’s two-year experience teaching contained some of the best and worst moments of his life. Dalton has always had a natural desire to teach – he was the kid leading the informal tutoring sessions during and after class. After he receives his doctorate, Dalton hopes to return to tea
From there, he immediately went into teaching high school in a community similar to the one in which he grew up. About the Author Dalton Jackson grew up in a small rural community in the south. Dalton has always had a natural desire to teach – he was the kid leading the informal tutoring sessions during and after class. After he receives his doctorate, Dalton hopes to return to teaching at the community college level. After graduating high school as part of a class of less than 100 people, he attended a state university and received a degree in biology. Dalton is now happily employed as a graduate research assistant and PhD student in a laboratory that studies chronic disease. After friends, neighbors, and strangers in person and online encouraged him, he collected his recollections into the book that became Schooled. . Dalton’s two-year experience teaching contained some of the best and worst moments of his life
Over the course of the next two years, he shared his students' triumphs, tragedies, joys, and frustrations. Schooled is one of the hottest non-fiction new releases in the store!Praise for Schooled:"I couldn't put it down!"Book Reviewer Archietross"Jackson's experiences in the modern American school system highlight the fundamental flaws within that system, and in doing so, reflect on many of the problems facing American society today."Book Reviewer Zebidee"Some chapters had me laughing, others had my eyes welling up, others left me insp
A short must-read for every school board member! Greg Marshall As a veteran teacher, I recognized every single one of Mr. Jackson's students. If you stay in the profession long enough, you will encounter them as well. As the other reviewers have stated, it's a short readan afternoon will do it. It's hard to put down, because each story/chapter is so short, so well-writ. Interesting vignettes, but too self-congratulatory. There are many tough schools to teach in, in all sizes of communities. Though the author starts with the caveats that this is one person's very short experience in one school, his narrative still lectures us in a way that seems too self-serving.The author is at his best when describing individual student si. Entertaining and Insightful BellaB After reading Schooled you will have an idea of what our high school teachers face on a daily basis, from the students, the administration and the parents. And you will understand the reasons why the really good teachers are leaving the profession. It sounds as if Mr. Jackson is an excellent teacher and I t