Tuned in and Fired Up : How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom

by Sam M. Intrator; Foreword by Elliot W. Eisner

• ISBN13: 9780300107661
• ISBN10: 0300107668
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

What can teachers do to inspire their students? In this compelling book, Sam Intrator provides detailed portraits of powerful learning episodes in a high school classroom and suggests numerous practical ideas to help teachers cultivate their own seemingly magical learning moments. "Should be required reading for every teacher and every student contemplating teaching as a profession."Mary Lynn Collins,Teachers College Record "Sam Intrator is one of the brightest lights in education today and a key leader in the rising generation of scholar-activists who can help bring meaning and purpose back to education. A compelling, wise, and truly extraordinary book."Parker J. Palmer, author ofThe Courage to Teach "I yearn for our society to change its vision of education, to remember that hearts must be engaged in order for minds to be put in gear. [Tuned In and Fired Up]adds to my sense of hope. . . . I am grateful for this book."Kathy Simon,Horace "Young teachers reading this book will learn many valuable things, but the most important message here is that good teaching is more a matter of passion and human connection than of practiced technique."David Ruenzel,Teacher Magazine

Author Biography

Sam M. Intrator is assistant professor of education and child study at Smith College.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Elliot W. Eisner	xi
Gratitudes	xv
1. "The Kids Were on Fire": On the Nature of Inspired Learning and Potent Teaching	1	(14)
2. Spans of Time That Don't Glow: A Portrait of Everyday Life at Stanton High	15	(8)
3. Seeing the World in a Plot of Grass: Discovering the Enchanting Power of the Aesthetic	23	(26)
4. Forging Community: An Episode of Deep Connection	49	(20)
5. Grasping Insight: An Episode of Coming to Know Yourself	69	(14)
6. Doing Good: An Episode of Enacting Virtue	83	(22)
7. Tangling with the Unspeakable: An Episode of Facing Conflict in Conversation	105	(16)
8. Caught! Common Features in the Episodes	121	(12)
9. A Letter to a Colleague	133	(20)
Author's Note and Methods	153	(4)
Notes	157	(8)
Index	165