Michael Gose

The Challenge of Greatness (eBook, PDF)

The Legacy of Great Teachers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Challenge of Greatness: The Legacy of Great Teachers reveals the characteristics and teaching strategies of Great Teachers. Simultaneously the book describes a Pantheon of thirty-two great teachers, and challenges the reader to continue their legacy by becoming one. Recognizing the uniqueness of a great teacher, the book raises the kind of issues they face, and a range of possibilities from which they find solutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216315995
• Artikelnr.: 75139303

Autorenporträt

Michael Gose was a student at Mission Bay High School, Occidental College, Pepperdine University, Stanford University, and as such, he had the great good fortune of reading and discussing the classics. After a visit to campus by Mortimer Adler, Gose initiated a Great Books program at Pepperdine University, and has been teaching Great Books, and writing about Socratic pedagogy, for almost forty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication and Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: A Pantheon of Great Teachers
Chapter Two: How Great Teachers are Perceived (and Described)
Chapter Three: Great Teachers' Strategies and Practices
Chapter Four: Considerations for Great Teachers
Chapter Five: Warnings
Chapter Six: What Might Keep You From Becoming a Great Teacher?
Chapter Seven: Conclusions
References
Index
Appendix