Winter Reading
I am currently catching up on some pleasure reading (as well as education related reading as well) over this break and wanted to recommend a great book I started today: Frank McCourt's (author of Angela's Ashes) "Teacher Man". Beautiful account of a teacher's life from the first day in the classroom through a thirty-year career. There is much that I can relate to already (he attended NYU for his teaching certification), and other experiences that I am sure I will come across soon enough. Check it out.
posted by Cassi Campbell @ 12:08 PM
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The thing that struck me the most about McCourt's book was how much things haven't changed since he taught! Amazing!!! The DOE is seriously outdated.
There's a movie, too ... I showed about half an hour of it for my ninth graders last semester while we were reading The Glass Castle to draw comparisons, and although they had a hard time with the Irish accent, they seemed to enjoy it.
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