Teaching Day by Day: 180 Stories to Help You Along the Way

by Donald H. Graves

How easy it is to get into an emotional rut. To get stuck in preparing lesson plans and tests. To mistake busyness for well-being. It's time to step back, reflect, and refresh. And there's no better way to do it than by reading master teacher and author Don Graves. In Teaching Day by Day , Graves exhibits the same uncommon insight, unwavering support, and unbounded hope for the future that made his best-selling book The Energy to Teach such an inspiration to teachers. Filled with anecdotes, classroom events, and reflectionsone for each of the 180 school days each chapter is about a page long and ends with a simple statement to ponder. Open the book and find Graves at this best

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Teaching

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2004

About the author

Donald Graves was one of the greatest voices of his generation, a plain spoken, thoughtful genius. He was an educator, a writer, an outspoken advocate for educational best practices. His death was a loss too great to put into words for people the world over, whether they were aware of it or not. A Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, Donald Graves, with the help of mentor Donald Murray and contemporaries like Lucy Calkins and Ralph Fletcher, revolutionized writing instruction in the U.S. with the widespread practice of practical workshop-based language arts instruction. In his decades at the forefront of writing instruction research, Donald offered numerous works that continue to shape the face of instruction today and for the foreseeable future.

Reviews

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not a person who can only read one page of a book a day - which is what Graves intended for this book when he wrote it. Each page has a story that's supposed to get you through the entire school year. While I did flag some of the stories in this book for future reference, I found myself disappointed with the fact that so many of the stories in this book come from a previous compilation of Graves' called How to Catch a Shark.