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Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog. From one of America s most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every child s education In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth graders inside are first-generation immigrants who live in poverty and speak English as a second language. They also play Vivaldi, perform Shakespeare, score in the top 1 percent on standardized tests, and go on to attend Ivy League universities. Rafe Esquith is the teacher responsible for these accomplishments. From the man whom The New York Times calls a genius and a saint comes a revelatory program for educating today s youth. In Teach Like Your Hair s on Fire!, Rafe Esquith reveals the techniques that have made him one of the most acclaimed educators of our time. The two mottoes in Esquith s classroom are Be Nice, Work Hard, and There Are No Shortcuts. His students voluntarily come to school at 6:30 in the morning and work until 5:00 in the afternoon. They learn to handle money responsibly, tackle algebra, and travel the country to study history. They pair Hamlet with rock and roll, and read the American classics. Teach Like Your Hair s on Fire! is a brilliant and inspiring road map for parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about the future success of our nation s children. "
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Margaret Brown
reviewed Teach like your hair's on fire on September 07, 2008
Teach like your hair's on fire
Though this is about an elementary school teacher, there are a few strategies that are applicable to high school teachers as well.
And now it's time for a rant.
I'm sure the author is a great teacher and his kids learn a lot from him.
But--and this is very important--this is yet another book which describes a teacher as a saint, with sanctified kids, who sacrifices his entire life for his students.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, and certainly Rafe Esquith seems to have done something right in his school. However, I resent the implication (one so often used in both books and movies about inspirational teachers) that a teacher's life begins and ends in his classroom.
How about a little moderation?
Sure, I can be devoted to my students and teach them to the best of my ability and inspire them to be all they can be. But I shouldn't be made to feel guilty because I want to have a personal life too.
In addition, I don't actually live in a community in which every student is invested in his education. This is yet another book in which the kids JUST CAN'T WAIT for school to start, and they get there early and stay late and work beyond their grade level and blahblahblah.
That is not a brand of student I am familiar with. Where are MY industrious little bunnies who want to read Shakespeare or write ten page essays or diagram sentences JUST BECAUSE?? I could be the best teacher in the world, too, if I didn't have to spend half my class time waking kids up or telling them to pick up their social lives after class or repeating the page number of the book 547 times.
I guess what I'm saying is ... this is a book for pre-teachers and college professors who've never been in a real classroom. Teachers in the trenches will read this and question its practical application.
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