Urban Teaching: The Essentials

By Lois Weiner

Book Overview

Insider advice for the new city teacher

How can teachers prepare to meet the many challenges they will face in a city school? Written by a highly regarded teacher with years of experience supervising new teachers in urban and suburban schools, this new book focuses directly on urban teaching. To help new teachers navigate their first years in urban classrooms, the author provides invaluable "insider" recommendations for coping with school realities ranging from overcrowded classes and a lack of appropriate materials to cultural diversity, frustrating bureaucracy, and school violence. Using the author's personal experiences as well as relevant research, this guide also serves as an important resource for all teacher educators.

Comments from Practitioners

"As a teacher who is currently working in an urban setting, I owe a lot of my success to Lois Weiner."

Joe Bailey, E.S.L. teacher

"She taught me how to practice effective discipline with troubled students and non- English speakers."

Nancy Mejia, Bilingual Math teacher

"She encourages the novice student-teacher and helps the veteran instructor expand their horizons."

Carol A. Carattini, Science, Social Studies teacher

"Professor Weiner provides 'real' lessons and activities to use in my classroom."

Neil A. Schweitzer, Reading Coordinator

"Lois Weiner stresses the need for sensitivity to multiculturalism and teaches by example."

Israel Rodriguez, College teacher

"There has been no one in my professional life that has had more of a positive influence on my career as an urban teacher."

Dante Petretti, English teacher

"The advice and information offered to me by Dr. Weiner is implemented every single day through my lessons."

Michael Ferman, teacher

"Dr. Weiner teaches us to bring out the best in all our students, regardless of where they live."

Joyce Teixeira, Community/Teacher Aide

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807737801
• ISBN13: 9780807737804
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book!!!

This book is a must have for anyone who is willing to teach in an urban education setting. Easy to read with common sense terminology.

Urban Teacher: an Honest Book

I used the earlier version of this book with pre-service teachers in their final university practicum. It's an honest, forthright, useful guide for beginning teachers. My students compared what they were reading with their placement experiences. I can only assume that Weiner has done an even more excellent revision, addressing the toughest issues that teachers face.

A Great Book for Every Teacher

Lois Weiner's Urban Teaching provides a clear and insightful look into the issues that each urban teacher faces. A well-balanced mix of theory and anecdotes creates a reader-friendly text with suggestions that rookie and experienced educators alike can adopt.Perhaps the greatest strength of this text is that it provides information that can be easily translated for every classroom. All students face issues similar to those discussed here, and ultimately all teachers will surely benefit from Weiner's discussion.