Teaching Stories

By Judy Logan

Book Overview

When nearly everyone else is telling kids no-"No, do it this way....No, I don't want to hear what you think....No, sit down and pay attention"-Judy Logan says yes, to a child's passions, interests,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568361955
• ISBN13: 9781568361956
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read!

I am a teacher educator and a former middle school teacher and I am completely taken and inspired by Teaching Stories. Logan's experiences with middle school students and her remarkable insights into pre-adolescent development provide the reader with a joy-filled reading experience. Her teaching style and curriculum choices have created equitable and exciting classroom learning experiences. Logan's respect for her students is reflected in each chapter. It is a significant contribution for anyone interested in teaching- at any level!

Forget about Esme--Read Judy!

If you're a pre-service or new teacher this book will spur you on. If you're a veteran, it may fan your passion and make you remember why you wanted to teach in the first place. The first story alone, on making a quilt, was worth much more than the price of the book in the many valuable lessons it taught me. If you are a teacher, read this book. If you know someone who wants to be a teacher, buy them this book.

A superb teacher overcomes the challenges of today's schools

What needs to happen in our schools to make today's students humane, engaged, confident about themselves and tolerant of each other? The experts throw up their hands. They should simply ask a superb teacher or, better yet, read Judy Logan's TEACHING STORIES. Logan worked for 35 years in some of the most challenging school settings in San Francisco. She created a multi-cultural, gender-neutral or "gender-enhancing", student-centered classroom where "no" becomes "yes" and students take responsibility for themselves, each other, and their school. Rarely do we read books in which we seek to learn that also move us to tears and laughter. TEACHING STORIES does all that and more; it is for teachers, parents and all citizens concerned about the next generation. I can't wait for Logan's sequel.