An Innocent Mission: More Reflections of a Reading Teacher - Couverture souple

Coats, Glenn G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692611487 ISBN 13 : 9780692611487

Editeur : Pineola Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

In this follow-up to “Trying to Move Mountains” (Reading Recovery Council of North America, Inc., 2004), Glenn G. Coats writes about his final years of teaching Reading Recovery at the Barley Sheaf School in Flemington, New Jersey. Coats was obsessed with getting it all down on paper, not only the stories of children who struggle with reading and writing, but also thoughts on a life spent as a teacher. There are vivid descriptions of back to school nights as well as meetings with anxious parents. Coats composed poems during the drives to and from school when his thoughts were on the students: what to teach next, which parents to call, and whose minds to change. Readers of “An Innocent Mission” will make their own personal connections to poems in this book. They will see students they are working with now or names will appear again from the past. The poems will remind teachers of the dignity and importance of their own work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Glenn G. Coats is an educational writer whose articles and stories focus on adult literacy. He serves as co-editor of haibun at "Haibun Today." Glenn was an elementary school teacher for 34 years and taught first through fifth-grade students as well as Reading Recovery, a one-to-one early intervention for first graders having a difficult time learning to read. His poetry collection about children who struggle with reading and writing, "Trying to Move Mountains," was published by the Reading Recovery Council of North America in 2005. He is a three-time Pushcart nominee. Glenn’s work has been published in many magazines and journals including: The Journal of Reading Recovery, The Running Record, Learning, Poet, Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, Bottlerockets, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, and Shamrock Haiku Journal, among others. His stories have been published in "Highlights for Children" where he was twice named Author of the Month. A children’s book, "Waiting for a Frog," was published in 1997 by Kaeden and is now in its fourth printing. Glenn lives with his wife Joani in a rural part of Virginia where he teaches adult literacy. They have three children and five grandchildren. Other interests include music, drawing, and fishing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pineola Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692611487
• ISBN 13: 9780692611487
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 94
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