Reviews for Beat Not the Poor Desk

The average rating for Beat Not the Poor Desk based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-18 00:00:00 Steven Bayers This book on teaching composition was recommended to me by a colleague who teaches communication in the humanities. I am not fond of Ponsot's belief in inductive reasoning (i.e., not making concepts explicit beforehand), but like her idea of building on students' strengths and insistence on observation over inference. I will try to incorporate these latter strategies into my own teaching.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-13 00:00:00 Michael Garren THE classic book on teaching by one of our greatest poets. Marie Ponsot is an original and unfortunately largely unknown, even now as she's in her late 80s.