We treasure the occasions when a classroom of students becomes totally focused, absorbed by ideas. How can teachers make these special moments happen more often?
Every teacher has powerful memories of becoming swept up in an electric moment when the classroom hums with energy and students are wholly engaged in learning. During such moments of real learning, teenagers find genuine meaning, worth, and value in their academic experiences. And their teachers find in these heightened and exuberant moments the embodiment of their best hopes and ideals as educators. How can such “teachable moments” be encouraged? What can teachers do to inspire more of these educationally vital episodes? In this compelling book, Sam M. Intrator scrutinizes powerful learning moments in a high school classroom. He offers five detailed portraits of these experiences, describing in each case how the teacher shaped the culture of the class, made critical pedagogical decisions, and connected students to the subject matter. Intrator confirms that seemingly magical learning moments can becultivated, and he suggests numerous practical ideas to help teachers do so.
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"If you seek faith and hope, I invite you to spend a day here with Mr. Quinn, a master teacher, and Sam Intrator, a master writer." - Marianne Novak Houston, facilitator, International Courage to Teach Program
"In this beautifully written book Sam Intrator lets us in to the detailed workings of the teaching/learning relationship at its best." - Denise Clark Pope, author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students
"Sam Intrator is one of the brightest lights in education today. His excellence as a teacher, his commitment to our public schools, his passion for the well-being of the young and those who teach them, his remarkable way with words, and his unwavering integrity mark him as a key leader in the rising generation of scholar-activists who can help bring meaning and purpose back to education. But do not take my word on this. Find out for yourself by reading this lively, compelling, wise, and truly extraordinary book." - Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach and Let Your Life Speak
"Intrator is both thoughtful and articulate in this study of educationally vital moments. His book is engaging, intriguing, and inspiring." - Robert W. Roeser, Stanford University
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