In School: Our Kids, Our Teachers, Our Classrooms

by Ken Dryden

Book Overview

Everyone talks about our schools. Newspaper editorials worry about slipping educational standards. Business complains about poor training for the work force. Television programs talk about violence in school halls. Educational reports study problems and issue strategic documents. Parents attend parent-teacher interviews twice a year. Yet nobody except for the teachers and the kids seems to know what really goes on there. Ken Dryden decided to find...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771028695
• ISBN13: 9780771028694
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dryden: Keen Powers of Observation.

It's not surprizing that one of the Canada's leading professional hockey goaltenders would have a sharp eye and a keen mind. Both are necessary to successfully transform a year of in-class observation and reflection into a meaningful book. Dryden does not hit the reader powerfully, but with subtlety. He describes high school classroom situations from the point of view of a member of the class, and then lets the reader peer into the minds of the teachers and administrators as they ponder those same events. I like the book because it has helped me in my profession as a teacher to reflect on my own teaching situation, and to more fully grasp the often forgotten realities of today's students."In School" is a reflective work for teachers, parents and administrators to digest slowly. It should help them sink their roots of understanding a little deeper into the complex issues of the modern classroom, and perhaps pave some middle ground between polarized stakeholders in the educational field.