What Teachers Make

What Teachers Make
Author: Taylor Mali
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1101577363

In praise of the greatest job in the world... The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever. Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, perceptive look at life in the classroom pays tribute to the joys of teaching…and explains why teachers are so vital to our society. What Teachers Make is a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America—and everybody who’s ever loved or learned from one.

The New Girl

The New Girl
Author: Jennifer Degenhardt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017-10-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780999347928

Taruka is the new girl at the high school in town. The story takes the reader through a year of high school that Taruka is not likely to forget. She makes friends and meets a boy, Cooper. Like Cooper and many of the students at the school Taruka is very involved in sports, so she gets along with her new classmates well. But issues arise with her newfound friendship with Cooper when their differences are highlighted by the adults in their lives. This book is intended as a reader for students learning English. While the story has a plot similar to the classic story of Romeo and Juliet or Tony and Maria, the vocabulary and grammar are simple and comprehensible even for those just beginning with English.

The Power of a Teacher

The Power of a Teacher
Author: Adam Sáenz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Teachers
ISBN: 9781937654603

Adam Saenz's The Power of a Teacher is the result of years of research and professional development conducted in school districts nationwide. In this book you will be able to take the 50-item Teacher Wellness Inventory to identify strengths and weakness in the occupational, emotional, financial, spiritual, and physical areas of your life. It's also filled with discussion questions to create interaction and dialogue between colleagues. Read the stories of real people whose lives were changed by real teachers.

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
Author: Margarita Madrigal
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 513
Release: 1989-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0385410956

Use the English you already know to quickly learn the basics of Spanish with this unique, accessible guide featuring original illustrations by Andy Warhol—from one of America’s most prominent language teachers. Read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks! Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effectiveness of Margarita Madrigal’s unique method of teaching a foreign language. Completely eliminating rote memorization and painfully boring drills, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish is guaranteed to help you: • Learn to speak, read, and write Spanish quickly and easily • Convert English into Spanish in an instant • Start forming sentences after the very first lesson • Identify thousands of Spanish words within a few weeks of study • Travel to Spanish-speaking countries with confidence and comfort • Develop perfect pronunciation, thanks to a handy pronunciation key With original black-and-white illustration by Andy Warhol, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish will provide readers with a solid foundation upon which to build their language skills.

Quick Guide to Peruvian Spanish

Quick Guide to Peruvian Spanish
Author: Language Babel
Publisher: Language Babel
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780983840572

Traveling to Peru to live there or study Spanish? Or maybe you are a native Peruvian wanting to better connect with your roots, heritage and culture? This book is for you. This dictionary-style book of words and phrases helps you better understand Peruvian Spanish and slang. The collection of almost 500 terms and sayings will help you become familiar with the richness of Peruvian Spanish. It includes slang and vulgar words that you will likely run across in everyday conversations. Each term has been defined in English and synonyms are included when available. There are also more than 450 example sentences demonstrating how to use the words. It includes 51 black and white illustrations. Words like "pulenta," "choche," "pituco" and "chancón" will no longer be a mystery. You will be on your way to Peruvian Spanish fluency with this phrasebook of Spanish vocabulary words from Peru. IS THIS BOOK FOR ME? This book contains words that are not appropriate for kids. If you are just starting to learn Spanish, this book is best used as a complementary reference source to any program or class designed to teach you Spanish. This book and the other books of the Speaking Latino series are not designed as stand-alone learning aids, to teach you Spanish. Instead, they expand your country-specific Spanish vocabulary. If you already speak Spanish, this book help you understand local Spanish from Peru. Be sure to use the Amazon Look Inside function to see what this book will and will not teach.

Change(d) Agents

Change(d) Agents
Author: Betty Achinstein
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807771481

This book examines both the promises and complexities of racially and culturally diversifying todays teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of the lives of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book documents the tensions these teachers experience between serving as role models and fulfilling district and state mandates.

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos
Author: Carlos Montemayor
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0292744765

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the role of theater within indigenous communities. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.

Complete First Certificate for Spanish Speakers Teacher's Book

Complete First Certificate for Spanish Speakers Teacher's Book
Author: Guy Brook-Hart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 8483237504

Complete First Certificate for Spanish Speakers offers the most authentic preparation available for the Cambridge ESOL exam. Complete First Certificate is a course for the 2008 revised FCE exam. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus and providing a complete FCE exam paper specially prepared for publication by Cambridge ESOL, it is the most authentic exam preparation course available. This English for Spanish Speakers edition provides specific help for Spanish-speaking candidates. The Teacher's Book contains full teacher's notes with extra teaching ideas, photocopiable material including class activities and progress tests, recording scripts and word lists. The English for Spanish Speakers edition provides specific help on how to exploit the speaking and pronunciation activities designed specially for Spanish-speaking students.

Deep Water

Deep Water
Author: Katherine Nichols
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481481061

Documents the experiences of a group of elite teen swimmers in a 1971 southern California beach town who began trafficking drugs between Mexico and California, an illicit operation that grew into a multimillion-dollar global operation and became increasingly more dangerous when they were joined by their former high school Spanish teacher.