Out on Good Behavior: Teaching math while looking over your shoulder

Book overview Description Editorial Reviews Tell the administration what they want to hear, then do what is best for your students.

That's advice Barry Garelick tries to follow in the process of becoming a fully credentialed teacher which entails being monitored by two mentors.

As the Mark Twain of education writing, Garelick presents this chronicle of his experiences at two schools, teaching math.

With chapters such as, "Not Making Sense, and a Conversation I Never Had", "Math Talk, Stalin's Hemorrhoids and a Murder of Crows", Garelick gives the reader a verité-style glimpse into the daily routines of math teaching and exposes a lot of the nonsense that teachers are advised to follow, and which they feel guilty about when they don't.

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Garelick: "It's doubtful this book will ever become required reading in schools of education, which is all the more reason why you should read it." Read more Review "A fascinating insider account of the struggles and insights of a novice grade school teacher who is also a seasoned mathematician and a proponent of traditional, evidence-based math instruction." Katharine Beals, PhD, Drexel University School of Education"There are many ways to be a great mathematics teacher.

"Out on good behavior" details an approach that you are unlikely to get told about in teacher prep courses, and should therefore be required reading for all prospective math teachers:" Dylan Wiliam"I enjoyed reading this book so much! Barry Garelick presents his own experiences as a teacher in a highly entertaining, humorous series of vignettes.

For traditionalist teachers who resist modern efforts to reform the teaching of mathematics--or who resist the latest jargon and fads that wash over education--the students, administrators, and colleagues Garelick e