R&L Education
Pages: 152
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-57886-136-1 • Paperback • June 2004 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Darlene Anderson Wilson, whose career spanned the last half of the twentieth century, has spent thirty-eight years of the last fifty years as a teacher, acting principal, and training teacher in elementary schools in the Los Angles Unified School District.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 PART 1
Chapter 5 1. Do Americans Really Want Academic Success?
Chapter 6 2. Is it Magic, Miracles, or Motivation?
Chapter 7 3. Teaching Is an Art—Not a Science
Chapter 8 4. Hey Everybody Out There! Johnny Can Read, and So Can Juan and Jose!
Chapter 9 5. Discipline Is Not a Four-Letter Word—It Is a Sense of Security and Order
Chapter 10 6. Why Can't we Agree on Success?
Part 11 PART 2
Chapter 12 7. The Classroom as a Community
Chapter 13 8. Class Plays Promote a Sense of Community
Chapter 14 9. A Sense of Community Through Poetry
Chapter 15 10. The Classroom as a Safe Refuge
Chapter 16 11. The Classroom from the Fifties through the Nineties
Chapter 17 12. From Sputnik to Tomato Seeds from Space
Part 18 PART 3
Chapter 19 13. Which Came First: Public Education or the Problems and Controversy?
Chapter 20 14. Can American Students Compete Globally?
Chapter 21 15. What Happens to the Mentally Gifted Student?
Chapter 22 16. What Happened to the Bilingual Student in the Eighties?
Chapter 23 17. The Classroom Teacher's Image on Television
Part 24 PART 4
Chapter 25 18. Belonging as a Goal
Chapter 26 19. Strategies
Chapter 27 20. Fun
Chapter 28 21. Basic Values
Chapter 29 22. Cause and Effect
Chapter 30 23. Voice Effectiveness
Chapter 31 24. Self-Esteem
Chapter 32 25. Choices
Chapter 33 26. Students Want Specific Goals
Chapter 34 27. The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching
Part 35 Epilogue
Part 36 References
Part 37 About the Author