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Curious about
what experienced and accomplished classroom teachers think of their
profession?
The North
Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) has created a Web
site that presents a "rich selection of practical advice, stories,
struggles, and personal victories experienced by teachers from all
over the country."
Click on the
link below to connect to that site. To hear the interviews you will
need to have the free QuickTime (version 3 or later) plugin installed
on your computer (it may already be installed). You may also just
read the interviews as the Web site also provides the complete written
text of the interviews.
You may also
be interested in knowing a little about Henry Brooks Adams. Henry
Brooks Adams knew something about the important effect of "teachers"
in ones life. Henry was a fourth-generation member of one of America's
most distinguished families. Childhood visits to grandfather John
Quincy Adams in the White House and family tales of great-grandparents
John and Abigail Adams first served to personalize the facts and
dates he studied at school.
Rather than
becoming a maker of history like his forebearers, Henry chose
to write about it and would become a noted American historian in
his day. Henry was considered an effective, innovative teacher.
He pioneered the use of the seminar system and encouraged student
evaluations as well as the keeping of journals.
It is his account of his
own education, The Education of Henry Adams, that most interests
us as teachers. In his book, Adams sees his education from boyhood
to adulthood as various costumes draped over him.
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