Making a Difference

Author:
Multiple

ISBN:
0-944210-99-6

Year:
1998

Page Count:
168

Reading Level:
adult

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Description

In this collection of moving personal essays, developmental college instructors write about the challenges and rewards of teaching. The essays, a tribute to both teachers and their students, provide an inspiring reminder that it is possible to make a real difference in a person's life.

Sample passages from the Preface to Making a Difference:
The personal essays in Making a Difference were selected from the winning entries in two separate Townsend Press writing contests for developmental teachers. These essays, by teachers across the country, were written in response to the following topics:

What Made Me Decide to Be a Teacher
The Most Influential Teacher I Ever Had
How I Learned to Teach
The Pleasures and/or Pains of Teaching
The Comic Side of Teaching
My Most Fulfilling Experience as a Teacher
My Most Unforgettable Student
What Students Have Taught Me
My Personal Advice to New Developmental Teachers
How I Energize the Developmental Education Classroom
My Most Successful Assignment(s)
Why I Would Decide to Teach Again
Lessons I Never Learned in School

Entrants were required to be part- or full-time teachers at a two-or four-year college and to be teaching a developmental reading, writing, or ESL course within one year of submitting an entry.

The essays in this book are representative of the hundreds of often moving pieces that we received rich, loving, and passionate accounts by writers for whom teaching is not just a job but the most meaningful of professions. The essays remind us of what we already know but tend, in the course of busy and sometimes frustrating days in the classroom, to forget: that helping students learn carries its own intrinsic rewards; that making a difference in another person's life can be a source of real joy.

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