Tag: online book review
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers – Follow the Leaders
Compared to past book review posts, this book review session takes a look at the second half of John Merrow’s, “The Influence of Teachers,” titled “Follow the Leaders.” As mentioned in my video recording, I elected to not review each chapter, as I do not believe I have fully gained the expertise and knowledge to [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 8) “Who Needs Tenure? Why Seniority?”
For today’s book review, I critiqued chapter 8, “Who Needs Tenure? Why Seniority?,” from John Merrow’s latest book, “The Influence of Teachers.” To summarize, John lays a case for how the teaching profession seems to award a now-useless method of “tenure” and “seniority” to teachers. While the profession definitely needed such protections decades ago, as [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 7) “Keeping Teachers”
For today’s book review, I critiqued chapter 7, “Keeping Teachers,” from John Merrow’s latest book, “The Influence of Teachers.” To summarize, John analyzes the current issue of “teacher dropout” or those that graduate from college/university Schools of Education, but never enter the field of education. John basically asks if this is a problem being perpetuated [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 6) “Paying Teachers”
For today’s book review, I critiqued chapter 6, “Paying Teachers,” from John Merrow’s latest book, “The Influence of Teachers.” In summary, John introduced his readers to the concept of teacher salary schedules and the controversial notion of merit-pay programs. Despite resounding research that suggests carrot-and-stick extrinsic motivators, such as bonuses and salary stipends for performance, [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 5)
For today’s book review, I take a look at Chapter 5, “Evaluating Teachers,” from John Merrow’s book “The Influence of Teachers.” Through this chapter, John tackles the notion of teacher evaluation and critically analyzes why data isn’t used a component of teacher evaluation? It appears as though a top-down management-style still exists within public schools, [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 4)
For today’s book review, I take a look at John Merrow’s book, “The Influence of Teachers,” specifically chapter 4 titled “Serious Fun?“ To summarize, John encourages classroom teachers to consider various elements of competition, games, and play which students are generally excited to do. I did question how much may be deemed too much, considering [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 3)
Great news, I finally got my webcam, microphone, and Camtasia working in unison! Bad news, if you don’t like video reviews or vlog entries, this was a long review. So here goes another book review episode, this time for Chapter 3 of John Merrow’s “The Influences of Teachers.” To summarize, John critically analyzed the emergence [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers by John Merrow Chapter 2 (Day 3)
Ah, I’m a little frustrated with today’s blog post…as I just finished a Camtasia recording of a PowerPoint of “The Influence of Teachers“, by John Merrow, which included significant quotations, only to find the audio corrupted. Given I have a few other things to complete tonight, I will bypass rerecording. Perhaps tomorrow I can return [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers by John Merrow Chapter 1 (Day 2)
Before I even begin to review the actual chapter contents, let me just say that I had full intent of going to bed at a “reasonable” hour last night, however I became entrenched with John Merrow’s book, “The Influence of Teachers.” Absolutely-no complaints at all. As a matter of fact, I went to bed feeling [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers by John Merrow (Day 1)
Several weeks ago, I received an awesome offer from The Viva Project, an online education website that strives to connect teachers with education policy. The offer was extended to the first 100 teachers that responded to the opportunity to request a free copy of John Merrow’s latest book, “The Influence of Teachers: Reflection on Teaching [...]
