{"product_id":"the-firstyear-urban-high-school-teacher-9780742561038","title":"The FirstYear Urban High School Teacher","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First-Year Urban High School Teacher: Holding the Torch, Lighting the Fire tracks co-author Paul Weinberg during his first year of teaching as he is introduced to the daily tribulations of an urban Los Angeles high school. Paul''s father, Carl Weinberg, who fifty years earlier himself began his career in education as an urban secondary school teacher, shares his experiences side-by-side with those of his son. Together they reveal parallels between Carl''s former problems in the urban classroom and the problems his son faces. Though some things have changed, there have not been nearly as many changes as one would have hoped. Interwoven with the father-son anecdotes of personal experience in teaching is a careful scholarly examination of the areas of social and cultural disorganization that the new teacher confronts with students, teachers, administrators, policy makers, and parents as he or she navigates through the behemoth of urban schooling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of this well-written book's virtues is its painfully honest depiction of a new teacher's attempt to create himself professionally.  Paul Weinberg brings his gifts and foibles and his vision of the kind of teacher he wants to be into the classroom—and there, over time, he forges with his students (and within the constraints of a typical urban school district) a meaningful and helpful life. -- Michael Rose, professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA; author, An Open Language: Selected Writing on Literacy, L\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Autobiographical Note from Paul Chapter 2: Incoming Chapter 3: Making Decisions Chapter 4: Dealing with Failure Chapter 5: Collegiality and Social Class Chapter 6: Loosening Up and Seeing the Social Problems Chapter 7: The New Year Chapter 8: Second Semester: Old Patterns, New Insights Chapter 9: Visions of Failure Chapter 10: April Flowers and Doubters Chapter 11: Emersion Chapter 12: They Smell Summer Chapter 13: Conclusion","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037632659799,"sku":"9780742561038","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742561038.jpg?v=1750936588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-firstyear-urban-high-school-teacher-9780742561038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}