Letters to a teacher
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Published:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2004].
Physical Desc:
ix, 242 pages ; 19 cm
Status:
Bemis Lower Level
371.1 PICKERIN
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Inspirational reflections on the art of teaching from the acclaimed essayist and teacher who inspired Dead Poets Society . Sam Pickering has been teaching for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society . Pickering went on to teach at Dartmouth and the University of Connecticut, where he has been for twenty-five years. His acclaimed essays have established him as a nimble thinker with a unique way of enlightening us through the quotidian. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always illuminating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of schools and universities. His observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth, and are leavened throughout with stories—whether from the family breakfast table, his revelatory nature walks, or his time teaching in Australia and Syria. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all, dynamic. "Perhaps the most poetic–even elegiac writing about education published in the past year." — Library Journal
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Book
Edition:
1st ed.
Language:
English
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0871136996
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APA Citation (style guide)
Pickering, S. (2004). Letters to a teacher. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Pickering, Sam, 1941-. 2004. Letters to a Teacher. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Pickering, Sam, 1941-, Letters to a Teacher. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Pickering, Sam. Letters to a Teacher. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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