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Super teachers, step aside. There's a lesson here: It's okay to fail!<br><br>We've heard enough about your successful teaching-your workshops that run like Cuisenarts, your students who listen with empathy and respond with insight, your conferences with parents and principals which end with hosannas and hugs. You're too perfect.<br><br>Welcome to the world of Oops, where things can-and do-go from bad to worse in the classroom. If you've ever had an awful day (or week or month or year) as a teacher, you will enjoy the essays in Oops. These are stories of failure from over forty-five new and veteran teachers in every field, stories that will resonate with every teacher who took a risk and blew it.<br><br>Some failures are embarrassing: the male high school students in grass skirts surprising the class with a dance illustrating their notions of a jungle tribe . . . <br><br>Some stories make you cringe: the disruptive college student who tries to lead the class in a spontaneous prayer ...<br><br>Others will remind you of your own lapses: a class of second graders arrives for the field trip with parent chaperones, picnic lunches, and maps, but you forgot to order the bus . . .<br><br>An

Author

Brenda Miller Power and Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, coeditors

Publisher

York, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571100276

Subjects

Education, Psychology, Management