Anglický jazyk

Learning on Other People's Kids

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2010
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 234 x 156 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781607524427

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O knihe

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in
becoming Teach For America Teachers. Previously unanswered questions are addressed: Why do
recent college graduates apply to Teach For America? How are they recruited, trained, and hired?
How do they learn the culture (s) of the community, schools, grade level, curriculum, and children
they teach? Is there a "culture" of the TFA organization? What recommendations do they offer to
TFA donors, policy-makers, future corps members and the public?
Woven into this book, are perspectives from mentors who worked alongside TFAers, administrators
who hired them, corporate C.E.O.'s who supported them, and policies (both local and
national) that privileged TFA over non-TFA teachers. Finally, a compelling series of eyewitness
narratives introduces each chapter's theme, documented from the author's own, "Notes from the
Field." These accounts offer rich, descriptive vignettes that present the challenges TFAers faced, as they occurred. Schools reflect the
multi-tiered and often non-level playing field that comprises America's educational landscape. Learning on Other People's Kids:
Becoming a Teach For America Teacher provides readers a glimpse into the corps member experience in a rare ethnographic account.