Burned in

by Friedman, Audrey A.; Reynolds, Luke

• ISBN13: 9780807751978
• ISBN10: 0807751979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-27
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Almost half of new teachers leave the profession within their first year. New teachers need support, mentoring, encouragement, and, most importantly, hope in order to survive the challenges of their first years of teaching. Burned In features essays from today's most visionary educators, including Jim Burke, Peter Elbow, James Loewen, Gregory Michie, Sonia Nieto, Kirsten Olson, and Parker Palmer. Their personal stories will help fuel new and veteran educators' passion for teaching so they stay "burned in" instead of burning out. Readers will hear inspiring stories of veteran public school teachers, as well as powerful research findings about what teachers need to succeed in today's classrooms. Never before has a single volume brought together the experiences of so many renowned teachers, scholars, and bestselling authors.

Author Biography

Audrey A. Friedman is an associate professor at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Luke Reynolds has taught 7th-through 12th-grade English in public schools.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Teacher Orientation	p. 4
Burn On, Teacher! (But Where's That Lighter?)	p. 10
Getting Burned	p. 19
Subject Love	p. 26
Practitoner Inquiry and the Messy Reality of Classroom Practice	p. 31
Burning Out in the Social Studies	p. 42
Regrounded	p. 48
Open Doors	p. 53
Fire and Water: Reflections on Teaching in the City	p. 60
The Believing Game	p. 67
Five Alive: Why Teaching Is So Compelling	p. 82
Holding the Tension of Opposites	p. 85
The High School Teacher as Scholar?	p. 90
The World Becomes What You Teach: A Better World Through Humane Education	p. 95
What, You Wanted and Easy Problem?	p. 102
It's Not on the Test: A Search for Existential Meaning in Three Acts	p. 109
From Surviving to Thriving	p. 124
Conclusion Teachers: Arsonists of the Best Kind	p. 135
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 145
Index	p. 153
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