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Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century.
A collection of columns previously published in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, focusing on Education and Academics. Topics include: vignettes of students and teachers; a sample parent/teacher conference and the players involved; a retrospective look at cyclical changes in the classrooms of public schools; the necessity of parent and teacher involvement in motivating responsible funding for education
46 pages, Paperback
First published June 7, 2011
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Terry Crawford Palardy
9 books27 followersRetired public school teacher, now a self-publishing author. Visit my webstore or Amazon.com to purchase books. https://www.terrycrawfordpalardy.com/...
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July 4, 2012
Exploring Issues in Education
In “Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century,” Terry Crawford Palardy writes with compassion, care and love for her profession and her students. They must have been lucky to have her as a teacher.
In a series of essays, Palardy explores timeless educational issues from her experienced perspective. She asks pertinent questions from varying perspectives. In Pendulum, we get a subtle, yet painfully accurate warning that the educational trends swing to extremes. (The current top-down business model of education may have been avoided if those who create education policy were forced to teach elementary school for one year.) Her intelligent writing explores various methods, addresses the intricacies involved in grading and grade inflation, and ends with a discussion with the principal demonstrating educators' concerns for more than just academics. I was reading Diane Ravitch’s “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education” concurrent with “Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century,” alternating between the two and on a couple occasions, I forgot which I was reading. That puts Palardy in very good company. Palardy is now retired and she is reflecting on her career in education. Let’s hope she continues to shed light on an often misunderstood profession.
I am always a bit apprehensive reviewing a fellow writer’s work. The task was made easier because “Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century” is nonfiction, and I write mostly fiction. Still, in this case, it’s even more satisfying to enthusiastically give five stars.
Jeffrey Penn May, author of No Teacher Left Standing, and more.
In “Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century,” Terry Crawford Palardy writes with compassion, care and love for her profession and her students. They must have been lucky to have her as a teacher.
In a series of essays, Palardy explores timeless educational issues from her experienced perspective. She asks pertinent questions from varying perspectives. In Pendulum, we get a subtle, yet painfully accurate warning that the educational trends swing to extremes. (The current top-down business model of education may have been avoided if those who create education policy were forced to teach elementary school for one year.) Her intelligent writing explores various methods, addresses the intricacies involved in grading and grade inflation, and ends with a discussion with the principal demonstrating educators' concerns for more than just academics. I was reading Diane Ravitch’s “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education” concurrent with “Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century,” alternating between the two and on a couple occasions, I forgot which I was reading. That puts Palardy in very good company. Palardy is now retired and she is reflecting on her career in education. Let’s hope she continues to shed light on an often misunderstood profession.
I am always a bit apprehensive reviewing a fellow writer’s work. The task was made easier because “Teaching: Education and Academics at the turn of the century” is nonfiction, and I write mostly fiction. Still, in this case, it’s even more satisfying to enthusiastically give five stars.
Jeffrey Penn May, author of No Teacher Left Standing, and more.
September 4, 2013
I just finished reading a book that I received for swapping my book, The Fifteen Houses, with another author at the New England Authors Expo 2013. As I read "Teaching" by Terry Crawford Palardy, I found it feeding my soul with even more questions that may weigh on the minds of teachers each new school year as their students filter into their classrooms. It made me think back on my education and the many different schools I attended that provided me with the variety of teachers who tried to instill in me a desire to want to learn. Feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders in my younger days, I wonder how much of the burden I carried may have been relieved if one of these "teachers" had showered me with even one ounce of encouragement as we faced each other on the first day of school or any day of the school year for that matter. Students come from many different backgrounds, cultures and social/financial status and if teachers today, new and old, ask themselves just a few of the questions outlined in this book, “Teaching," their work days will be much easier for them and it will help them toward their professional goal of being able to truly teach. All teachers should read this book and learn from the wisdom and personal experience of its author.
December 11, 2011
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This book is a compilation of edited columns written over a period of six years. They were Education and Academics Columns in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum (Formerly titled the National Forum of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society). The focus of the columns changed, from social issues in the classroom to budget considerations for the town at large. Change in pedagogy in response to state mandated standardized testing and the ever enduring but hardly endearing homework conundrum are also discussed. The columns are written in a conversational, narrative style, reflecting the view point of a veteran teacher.
This book is a compilation of edited columns written over a period of six years. They were Education and Academics Columns in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum (Formerly titled the National Forum of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society). The focus of the columns changed, from social issues in the classroom to budget considerations for the town at large. Change in pedagogy in response to state mandated standardized testing and the ever enduring but hardly endearing homework conundrum are also discussed. The columns are written in a conversational, narrative style, reflecting the view point of a veteran teacher.
January 18, 2012
The problems that plague today's schools are clearly elucidated in this book. It was nice to see a book that didn't sugarcoat the problems and that wasn't afraid to call out certain contributing factors to those problems (e.g. parents). I would've enjoyed seeing more ideas for solutions as to how to fix the schools and the problems that exist within them in the modern age.
January 17, 2012
I received this book for free from goodreads.com. I was kind of disappointed in the length and depth of this book. I had intended to give it as a gift to a teacher if I won it. It seemed there could have been more research put in to it.
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