Teach Like Your Hairs on Fire, Rafe Esquith
Teach Like Your Hairs on Fire, Rafe Esquith
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire

Author: Rafe Esquith

Narrator: James Yaegashi

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, Education


Synopsis

Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors. Still teaching fifth graders in a small, leaky classroom in downtown Los Angeles, Esquith fosters a wholesome climate where character, humility, and diligence matter and support is unconditional. For his mostly poor and Hispanic students, Esquith models two maxims: Be nice and work hard, and There are no shortcuts. And his students thrive!

Reviews

Goodreads review by MsAprilVincent on September 07, 2008

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

Goodreads review by jv on January 18, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 25, 2013

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

Goodreads review by Ryan on January 27, 2008

Teacher books are either, how to books that include lesson plans, methods, etc. or "inspirational" books about how a teacher succeeded in tough situations. This is a combination of both I feel. On the positive, it is not as dry as most methods books, and not as sappy as most inspirational books. The......more

Goodreads review by Aimée on January 03, 2010

Man. I wish we all had the monetary means to be as awesome a teacher as this guy is. Didn't anyone else find that this book was totally unreasonable, especially for Catholic school teachers? I barely make enough money to pay my mortgage and bills, so if I took on 4 extra jobs, it would not be to tak......more