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The
Rewards of Teaching
A
person's response to the question "Why teach?" can run the
gamut from "What's in it for me?" to "How can I help
others?" Moreover, at different times and in different moods, our
motivations may be quite different. As social psychologist Peter Drucker
quipped, "We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write
books about it." On the other hand, the motivational factors--those
qualities that reside within teaching--are clearer and relatively
constant. Researchers have identified a set of occupational rewards that
can help us sort out both the attractive and the unattractive qualities
of a career in teaching. The two broad categories of rewards are
extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. Extrinsic rewards are the
public, external attractions of an occupation, such as money, prestige,
and power. The intrinsic rewards of an occupation are the
internal or psychic satisfaction one receives from one's work, such as a
personal sense of accomplishment or an enjoyment of the work for itself.
It will undoubtedly be no surprise to the reader that teaching is
somewhat out of balance, receiving generally high marks on one set of
rewards and low marks on the other.
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Those Who Can, Teach
is a book that is a plentiful source of information for someone who is contemplating
becoming a teacher. The book covers reasons why to teach, how to teach
effectively, the reformation of education, and many other subjects.
The
book is divided up into five different parts: Schools, Students,
Teachers, Foundations, and The Teaching Profession. There are fifteen
chapters in the book, each approximately 30 to 35 pages in length. The
chapters are arranged in a way that the reader starts reading about why
they should teach and ends talking about the values of the teaching
profession.
Those Who Can, Teach is
a textbook for students, or anyone, interested in becoming a teacher.
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Review |
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This book was assigned for
me to read in my "Foundations of Education" class at Chapman
University. The thought of going back to school and reading all those
dry textbooks really was not all that appealing. Color me surprised when
I found that Those Who Can, Teach was well-written and very
interesting.
I actually found myself looking forward to reading this
book, and gained quite a bit of information while doing so. One thing I
really liked is every once in a while the authors entered their dialog
on the page discussing what they were thinking while writing on that
subject.
Those Who Can, Teach really helped solidify my decision to enter the
teaching profession.
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