03185cam a22004454i 4500 18061813 BJBSDDR 20231211132207.0 ta 140310s2014 nyu 000 0deng 2013042594 9780805096439 (hardback) 0805096434 (hardback) 9780805096446 (electronic copy) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc n-us-vt LB 1607.52 K28g 2014 373.110209743 Keizer, Garret, 1953- 33113 Getting schooled : the reeducation of an American teacher / Garret Keizer. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2014. 302 pages ; 22 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school--literally--in this arresting account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago.Much has changed since then--a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much to increase as to lighten. Telling the story of Keizer's year in the classroom, Getting Schooled takes us everywhere a teacher might go: from field trips to school plays to town meetings, from a kid's eureka moment to a parent's dark night of the soul.At once fiercely critical and deeply contemplative, Keizer exposes the obstacles that teachers face daily--and along the way takes aim at some cherished cant: that public education is doomed, that the heroic teacher is the cure for all that ails education, that educational reform can serve as a cheap substitute for societal reformation.Angry, humorous, and always hopeful, Getting Schooled is as good an argument as we are likely to hear for a substantive reassessment of our schools and those who struggle in them"-- Provided by publisher. Keizer, Garret, 1953- 33113 High school teaching Vermont Case studies. High school teachers Professional relationships Vermont Case studies. Public schools Vermont Case studies. Enseñanza secundaria 28977 Profesores de enseñanza secundaria. 31507 Escuelas públicas 1675 Cover image http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/439/9780805096439/image/lgcover.9780805096439.jpg 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 69085 69085 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 LB 1607.52 K28g 2014 00000120106 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK