Building a Better Teacher, Elizabeth Green
Building a Better Teacher, Elizabeth Green
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Building a Better Teacher
How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)

Author: Elizabeth Green

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 09/01/2014

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

We’ve all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great?

Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great. Is it a matter of natural-born charisma? Or does exceptional teaching require something more?
Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art. A former principal studies the country’s star teachers and discovers a set of common techniques that help children pay attention. Two math teachers videotape a year of lessons and develop an approach that has nine-year-olds writing sophisticated mathematical proofs. A former high school teacher works with a top English instructor to pinpoint the key interactions a teacher must foster to initiate a rich classroom discussion. Through their stories, and the hilarious and heartbreaking theater that unfolds in the classroom every day, Elizabeth Green takes us on a journey into the heart of a profession that impacts every child in America.

About Elizabeth Green

Elizabeth Green graduated from the University of the Arts with a BFA in theater arts. They have contributed to McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Hobart, Wigleaf, Necessary Fiction, fwriction : review, and others. Their hobbies include native gardening and aikido. Hailing from Upstate New York—Greenwich, to be specific—Elizabeth now lives outside Philadelphia with their husband and two cats.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on July 11, 2014

This was a Goodreads giveaway book that I won. As a retired teacher of 31 years in the public schools, many of my friends were asking me why in the world I would read this. "You're done teaching," they said. Honestly, I was a little leery of reading it, and it sat on my "to-read" pile for a while. T......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on August 24, 2014

This is a very difficult book for me to review. It veers between some near-eloquent descriptions of how master teachers learn to analyze their own instruction--to hero-worshipping, misguided prose on constructing a no-excuses classroom climate. And then it turns around and shares the bursting of educ......more

Goodreads review by David on March 06, 2015

After 32 year in classrooms, I confess I'm skeptical of books about teaching by non-teachers. Despite a Epilogue where Green describes teaching with a master teacher for one day, her appreciation of what teachers do and are seems naive. And her presentation of their methods and strategies seem, to t......more

Goodreads review by Doug on July 15, 2014

I got this as Goodreads Giveaway. I am a member of my local school bloard and teach quality control and statistics as an adjunct professor. I taught remedial math at Ohio State. I hoped to learn something about the art and science of teaching I was very disappointed. The book is far too anecdotal. I......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on March 20, 2016

I think, for a journalistic effort, this is really well-done, and Green really tries to get into the history of teacher education in relation to ongoing issues. She tries to take a few different perspectives, while at the same time taking a stance on what's important. She also manages to weave her r......more