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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.115091732
EAN num: 9780807745199
ISBN number: 0807745197
Label: Teachers College Press
Manufacturer: Teachers College Press
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Page Count: 205
Printing Date: 2004-10
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Gregory Michie’s very first bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, put him on the map as a compelling and passionate voice in urban education. In his new book, Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and once again provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms. Featuring portraits of five young teachers (two African Americans, two Latinas, and one Asian American) who are 'working for change,' Michie weaves the teachers’ powerful voices with classroom vignettes and his own experiences. Along the way, he examines what motivates and sustains these teachers, as well as what they see as the challenges and possibilities of public education
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I have been blessed with the privilege of taking a class/workshop with Michie and am just as invigorated by this book as his class. This book profiles the experiences, both good and bad, appropriate and inappropriate of teachers in urban schools. From the beginning, Michie acknowledges and addresses criticisms of his previous writings as well as discusses his intellectual struggle with the fact the he is/was a middle-class white man teaching poor, urban children of color. He also recognizes that this book is written from his perspective and therefore is filtered through his eyes rather than the teachers (though he tried to free it from his personal reflection as much as possible and just "show" these teachers in real world situations). His goal is not to profile five "good" or "star" teachers, just five real teachers struggling to teach for change, struggling to help their students change their lives and worlds.
This book showed me that even "good" teachers (I think they're all good teachers in this book, but that's just me) screw up. Even good teachers have bad days. All urban teachers, particularly new teachers, especially ones who teach against the status-quo and push their students to think critically about everything they read about and learn about, sometimes fall. But they have moments of triumph as well. They have moments where students go above and beyond expectations, and moments where they see just how much these "ghetto" or "low-achieving" students know about their world.
This book gave me hope and ignited a new fire in me. I hope it inspires you just as much.
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Michie is one of the few educators out there that consistently crafts his writing with such care, compassion, and insight. I really enjoyed reading this book. I think that as teachers we need to read our narratives and see them in a practical public forum, like Michie provides, instead of just an academic policy chart. Michie's writing is consistently reflectively and engaging. I highly recommend this book to anyone in the teaching profession, or the academic world.
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This is the dumbest book I have ever had rammed down my throat. This book claimes to be advocating change to public, high-needs schools but all it really shows is the class envy of a bunch of mindless liberals. The problem with people like Michie is they have been away from the real classroom for too long. They get too involved in there higher education indoctrination that they forget what it is like to be a real public school teacher. Michie, like others who indoc higher ed., live in a dream world and they think their "progressive ideas" are going to improve public education when in fact all it does is put our children in deeper trouble. My warning to you is if you have to read this book keep in mind that there is a bias against anything with common sense. Just as important, "progressive ideas" will only make our children "feel good" and will never improve the quality of their education. Maybe Michie's subsequent book will be "We lied to you. How liberal teacher education programs are out of touch and a waste of time."
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