Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

Though this is about an elementary school teacher, there are a few strategies that are applicable to high school teachers as well. And now it's time for a rant. I'm sure the author is a great teacher and his kids learn a lot from him. But--and this is very important--this is yet another book which desc......more

I think I read this book when I was using Goodreads simply as a tracker. Driving home from work, I heard an interview with Mr. Esquith wherein he was describing a challenging day of lighting the Bunsen burner for lab. The kids were getting frustrated, so he got all into and indeed, did get the burne......more

You know those students who, when studying, highlight nearly every sentence in the textbook? Well, that's how I was with Rafe Esquith's outstanding teaching book. I set out to flag the pages containing suggestions I found particularly helpful and quickly ended up abandoning that idea when I realized......more