How to Deal with Teachers Who Are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, Or Just Plain Confused

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

Angry Parents, Failing Schools

Check out the online pages.

Amazing.

She quotes Jerry Rosen in the first couple of pages.

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

(She actually has a story about a school committee trying to vote in a constructivist math curriculum. I'll try to get it posted. She may have been in favor of the curriculum herself to start; I don't remember.)

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

Or voting in Everyday Math.

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

So it's equally obvious, to me at any rate, that when Elaine McEwan set up teacher release time, nobody got to sit around talking about math being a dance.

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

Also, take a look at the posted pages from her 'Angry Teacher' book.

It's obvious she came into a very low-performing school and knocked heads.

Not only knocked heads; it's obvious she managed to fire a bunch of tenured teachers. (That's my read.)

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

Oh--this one is.....let me look.

She's a pistol. Her math book is expensive, but it's brilliant. You'd love it.

-- CatherineJohnson - 17 Oct 2005

I love the chapter titles and descriptions.

-- SusanS - 17 Oct 2005

Which book is this?

-- CarolynJohnston - 16 Oct 2005

I may have to buy this book

Here's her web site. Unfortunately she's completely focused on reading instruction. That's another obstacle in the U.S., I think; so many of our best people, at the elementary ed level, are interested in reading. (Remember the Stevenson & Stigler finding that a majority of Asian elementary ed teachers said math was their favorite subject to teach?)

[UPDATE 12-4-06: wrong again. Reading comprehension in the U.S. is a mess. Not being able to read is a far worse handicap than not being able to do math.]

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• Posted by: CatherineJohnson
• LogDate: Oct 16, 2005 @ 18:05