The art of teaching children all I learned from a lifetime in the classroom

"After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phil Done decided that it was time to retire. His days of teaching schoolchildren may have come to an end, but a teacher's job is never truly done, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators an...

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Main Author: Done, Phillip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Edition:First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
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Summary:"After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phil Done decided that it was time to retire. His days of teaching schoolchildren may have come to an end, but a teacher's job is never truly done, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. The result is this delightful and insightful teaching bible, The Art of Teaching Children. From the first-day-of-school jitters to the last day's tears, Done writes about the teacher's craft, classrooms and curriculums, the challenges of the profession, and the reason all teachers do it--the children"--
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:445 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9781982165666
1982165669
Author Notes:Phillip Done taught elementary school for thirty-three years and was the recipient of the prestigious Charles Schwab Distinguished Teacher Award, a Teacher of the Year in California, and a nominee for Disney's American Teacher Award. He has taught in public and private schools in the United States and internationally. He has also served as an educational consultant around the world. Additionally, Done has worked as an on-set teacher for child actors in television and film. Done's writing about education has appeared in Real Simple , Instructor , Parent , NEA Today , and Reader's Digest . He lives in Europe with his family.