Teacher Self

The Practice of Humanistic Education
This is a text about the practical side of humanistic education. It intends to draw the student-teacher into a series of narratives and to demonstrate how to create a lively learning environment in which everyone involved can expect to be interactive and effective.
Teacher Self may be the most valuable and enriching book about teaching ever written. Based on Temple University's acclaimed course, "The Art and Science of Teaching," Allender draws the student-teacher into a series of narratives that develop as scenes from a play. As the drama unfolds, the reader becomes part of a classroom where the teacher's strategy shifts from speaking to listening and where students teach and the teacher learns. The book demonstrates how to create a vital, lively, learning environment in which everyone involved can expect to be interactive, spontaneous, and effective. The book's immediacy, power, and clarity offer a rich model for teaching that your students will remember and emulate for years. A mix of theory and stories, Teacher Self is a book about the practical side of humanistic education.