The art of teaching / / Jay Parini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953903403321
• Autore: Parini Jay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-19-029088-9; 0-19-756549-2; 1-280-42773-6; 0-19-803793-7; 1-4237-2919-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 378.1/2
• Soggetti: College teachers - United States; College teaching - Vocational guidance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2005.
• Nota di contenuto: Beginnings -- My life in school -- The teaching life -- Nitty-gritty -- Endings.
• Sommario/riassunto: Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching , writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft.