Teacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
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Author: Frank McCourtEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-15
ISBN: 0743243773
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: What Exactly Makes a Great Teacher?
Summary: 4 Stars
Being a teacher myself, and having enjoyed McCourt's first book, I decided to pick up Teacher Man. I suppose there are a number of definitions or opinions of what constitutes an exceptional or effective teacher. Some would ask simply: "Did I learn what I was supposed to learn in this class?" If so, they would give the teacher a high grade. For example, a math teacher is supposed to make sure his students learn math and become proficient at it.
This is what happened in some "classroom" movies such as Mr. Holland's Opus (music), Stand and Deliver (math), and Dead Poet's Society (literature). However the draw of these movies was that these teachers were able to take bored,angry, underachieving students and convince them of the value of learning. To some degree, they did this by 1)caring about the students and 2) convincing them the learning would pay off in some important ways.
To Sir, With Love, Lean on Me, and Conroy's The Water is Wide may be a little more similar to McCourt's story in that the students learned some "non-intellectual" lessons about life as shared by the teacher directly or indirectly. So I think that McCourt's spat with the school officials was important. He saw a glimmer of potential that some of his life experiences could somehow help, enlighten, or motivate the students in this crazy business of life, and he fought the establishment to some degree to make teaching about the real stuff, the hard stuff of life. In that sense, I think we was successful to some extent and I do applaud him for caring enough to expose his life deeply to his students. My best teachers were ones who showed they cared about me but also knew how to teach. It takes both, and I believe McCourt tried to do both. Good book.
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