![]() I learned more from that book and from discussions with fellow English teachers than I had in four years of traditional teacher preparation and my brief bout of student teaching. ![]() My department chair said, “Read Up the Down Staircase immediately!” Bel Kaufman’s 1964 depiction of English teaching and kids was, she said, “right on.” Successful colleagues translated passionless collegiate philosophy into the vigorous reality of educating adolescents in the late 1960s. The students were ready for me, but I was not prepared for them.īy the end of the year, I had learned to teach. I walked into my first education job midyear as an English teacher of 9th graders who had driven my predecessor and two substitutes onto other career paths. ![]()
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