http://jackieregales.com/2010/03/08/what-makes-a-great-teacher-part-four/ writing, teaching, and piecing it all together Thu, 24 May 2012 01:48:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jackieregales.com/2010/03/08/what-makes-a-great-teacher-part-four/#comment-2015 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:56:39 +0000 http://jackieregales.com/?p=1119#comment-2015 [...] when I did my series on great teaching, one of the books I added to my wishlist was Teach Like a Champion. I first read about this [...]

]]> http://jackieregales.com/2010/03/08/what-makes-a-great-teacher-part-four/#comment-1691 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:50:25 +0000 http://jackieregales.com/?p=1119#comment-1691 The first few years of teaching are just incredibly difficult, and new teachers should get all the mentoring and guidance possible. I am not necessarily a “new” teacher any more, but I expect to learn a lot from the book too, based on the pieces in the article.

]]> http://jackieregales.com/2010/03/08/what-makes-a-great-teacher-part-four/#comment-1689 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:26:28 +0000 http://jackieregales.com/?p=1119#comment-1689 I am anxious to read Lemov’s book, and wondering how to get it into the library at our local school. We have an excellent group of teachers, on average, but because of the rapid growth in student enrollment, there are new teachers every year (as in, graduated college in June, hired to teach at the end of August), and the learning curve is very definitely STEEP.

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