A Medium Teacher Approves!
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I'm a professional teacher (who is also a medium) and I teach multiple mediumship classes every semester. This book is one of the few that I recommend to all of my new students.
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Cindy was an excellent special education teacher. Her students adored her as she was fair, respectful, and disciplined in a kind way. What Cindy writes is an amazing snapshot of education.
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As a teacher who works exclusively with Autistic children, I know first hand how difficult it is to get your hands on easy, user-friendly, teacher-friendly material for the classroom. This book is like a dream come true. Instead of having to page through reams of material it just gets straight to the lesson, tells me exactly what to do, and supplies me with all the materials. I've already been to school, I've got my credential, and I don't have a lot of extra time to swim through long-winded explanations. Just give me the classroom-tested lesson that works, and I'll try it myself. And guess what? It's awesome. This teacher understands exactly how the Autism classroom works, having served on the "front lines" himself. This is not coming from administrators or researchers in a lab - this is coming from a teacher who is on your side. And on the side of your kids. This is a rare and beautiful thing. I wish there was more material out there just like this for us special ed teachers! Thank you. And I don't know what this other reviewer is talking about with the "mistakes." There's a couple of minor printing errors in the book that are fixed on the CD. You have to print out the worksheets from the CD anyway if you want your students to actually do the work and benefit from the curriculum. Anyway, this is a fantastic book. I hope there's more material like this coming soon. I've been using it since the beginning of the year and I'm already seeing improvements in my students' comprehension and, as a result, in their communication skills. I've even noticed a sharp decrease in echolalia amongst several students. Amazing!
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I bought two of these mugs for my kids' teachers this year. I filled the mugs with small treats and lip balm, and attached a gift card to the handle. The gifts were very well received. These mugs are not flimsy. They have a nice weight to them and look like quality mugs. The colors are great, very bright and approachable, and the saying is just fun. It's true too. I mean, teachers are awesome! This is a great gift for any teacher.
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The staff likes the colors and works great in classroom
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I chose this book  for a classfull of 20 diverse primary children. Several laguages are spoken in this classroom and I wanted to do something special for these kids. I made 20 pair of mittens and wrapped them in colorful giftwrap. I gave the 20th anniver. edition book  to the teacher and she passed the mittens on to the kids . I felt this folktale would be understood by these children  even with their limited understanding of the English language.  We live in Maine and the winter of 2013 was cold and these kids have enjoyed their mittens!  The teacher took a group picture of the kids wearing the mittens and they wrote the sweetest "thankyou's".  They will remember "The Mitten Book" for many years to come!!!
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Smart teacher figures out how to make her students listen.
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We gave this to my daughter's English teacher as a gift. Her teacher loved it!
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Got it as a gift for a teacher, she really liked it(either that, or she didn't want to hurt my feelings ;))
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It was a gift for the teachers.  The teachers were happy with their gift.
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My high school career was bookended by English Literature courses taught by Frank Wallace. My classmates and I were aware of our great good fortune in this, and we responded with enthusiasm to his evident excellence as a teacher. He had an uncommon combination of qualities: he was brilliant and charismatic, and also kind and patient. A Frank Wallace class was exhilarating and challenging, and also congenial and good-humored.

This book gently reveals in a diaristic style the wellsprings of this good teacher, and in so doing gives insight into the qualities of all good teaching.

Love is at the center of it. Frank Wallace loves children. Really loves them, not for what he can mold them into but for who they actually are. He loves them for their strengths and their weaknesses, for their silliness and their seriousness, for their commonalities and their individual quirks.

Mr. Wallace sees schooling as the social, communal pursuit of teaching and learning, the main point of which is not the transmission of facts and skills but rather the cultivation of habits of the mind and heart. A good teacher models those habits and so must value the life of the mind and enjoy and practice learning.  Children are disinclined to take learning seriously in the presence of those who have stopped.

The good teacher does not cover the material with Q & A sessions but rather stimulates actual thinking. This is accomplished, Mr. Wallace says, when a real question is asked to which the answer is not already known. Workbooks and lectures by humbugs miss the point. When the question at hand is one to which thirty young minds may respond with thirty plausible answers, then magic is at work.

The practice of a good teacher is characterized by creativity and invention, improvisation, reacting in the moment. Such teachers aren't produced by training (although our systems for admitting teachers to the profession can promote or squelch their emergence) and the work of their classes cannot be specified in advance by curriculum committees (although these committees can allow them to flourish or undermine them).

As I read this book, I was delighted to hear the distinctive voice of Frank Wallace alive again in my head after so many years. But one need not, I think, have been in his classroom to delight in and profit from this wise and humane book.
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As a teacher, it's great to find the color I use in a twelve pack instead of a variety pack!
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My kid received compliments from Math teacher for this set.
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This gets a 5 star because the sellers delivered what they said in the description and I had no complications. Great job! Good color, good size, and I have no critical assessment for it. If I was a teacher, I would probably have to date you if I received this for Christmas (and since we are in America I have to add a disclaimer: if you also, an adult. I should not have to, though). However, I do not plan on making the teachers the tree, ha-ha, because that is too much work for the wrong kind of introvert.
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I teach 6th grade humanities, which means that I teach ancient civilizations as well as writing, so this was an awesome find!. The program is easy to implement in the classroom. :) I like the how the lessons spiral across other lessons. My students love participating in class, which was unheard of when I taught grammar before Grammar Rulz!
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I happened upon this little gem and it has been helpful to me as a psychic-medium as well as my students.
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One can hear Dr. Conway's voice while reading his moving observations of his life as a person and teacher, the human beings he engages inside the classroom and out and a look into their spirits as well as his own as he interacts.  He is not afraid to feel his positive and negative feelings for the persons he teaches but is judicious in expressing his feelings so that the student will have a chance to  become more conscious of him/herself. I have recommended this book to colleagues, patients(I am a psychotherapist) and complete strangers.  Dr. Conway has developed a sensitivity to the human psyche and expresses that in ways that engage the reader to demand more of him/herself in experiencing the everyday of life.  This is not a how to book or good rules for good teaching, but following along with him and his students one can become more conscious in living one's life and how we interact with others past and present.