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AN INVALUABLE GUIDE TO TEACHING TEENAGERS. FEATURING THE UNCENSORED ADVICE OF THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE BESTSELLING EDUCATOR LISA DELPIT This innovative approach to teaching teenagers comes from the point of view of students in today's hard-pressed urban high schools, where the teacher shortage has reached crisis proportions. It speaks to both new and established teachers, giving them first-hand information about who their students are and what they need to succeed. Forty students from three cities contributed perceptive and pragmatic answers to questions of how teachers can transcend the barriers of adolescent identity and culture to reach the diverse pupils in today's urban schools. Their responses are grouped into chapters on increasing engagement and motivation, teaching difficult academic material, reaching English language learners, and creating a classroom cultures where respect and success go hand in hand.

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Concrete, specific, engaging... useful for busy classroom teachers.

What's a new teacher supposed to do when she's trying to be nice and they're setting fires in the bathroom? With an authority that shimmers, a torrent of sensible, honest observations and ideas out of the mouths of babes/experts... If ever there was an authentic plea to make our high schools human and human scale, this is it. A book for everyone who teaches, veteran as well as beginner, to read and to ponder. Tells it like it is... much wisdom here. All educators should read this book--parents too. Concrete, specific, engaging... useful for busy classroom teachers.

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