What Makes Teachers Continuously Progress: An Epilogue of Teacher Stories

Author: Mary L. Jalonzo (USA)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is both a story about teachers and a book written for teachers. It collects research conducted by teachers through the method of storytelling, and it is also the author's research on teachers. I love this ambiguity—it accurately illustrates the gradual blurring of the boundaries between researchers and the researched. This book also challenges the terrifying notion that "theory is superior to practice." In this regard, it is a pioneer.
——F. Michael Connelly (Canadian scholar)
Few people want to turn back to the first page after reading the last page of a book. After reading What Keeps Teachers Going Forward once, I had such a desire. If you are buying professional books this year, this is it! Jalonzo and Eisenberg have made great contributions to professional literature with clear language, comprehensive knowledge, and passion.
——Jeffrey Broussard (Professor at the International College of Brussels)
For those who take the teaching profession seriously, this is a must-read.
——Philip Harris (Director of Career Development, Phi Delta Kappa International Association)
Recommended by the National Education Association of the United States, the Teacher Education Committee, Columbia University's School of Education, and the China Youth Publishing Group. A reading plan for a teacher's entire career.
A story, an inspiration—this is a story written by teachers about their own experiences. Telling stories, sharing experiences, this is the professional insight accumulated by teachers themselves. Reflect on teaching practices in the light of inspiration, and grow into expert-level teachers through reflection.
What Keeps Teachers Going Forward—A Collection of Teacher Stories for Inspiration teaches us how to teach. Just as these stories illustrate the perspectives of teachers and teaching, the words of Mary L. Jalonzo and Joan P. Eisenberg partly express the experience we need to learn from this book, and our views on these stories are also what we need to learn.
The author shows the usefulness and importance of teachers, and the stories themselves reveal even more ideas. Because stories interact with listeners, readers, and other storytellers, it is only natural that the influence of this book goes beyond the author's imagination. From their experiences, you can see yourself and your colleagues, and you may also imagine new possibilities for your own teaching.