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Author Banner, James M., 1935-

Title The elements of teaching / James M. Banner, Jr., and Harold C. Cannon
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description x, 142 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Learning -- Authority -- Ethics -- Order -- Imagination -- Compassion -- Patience -- Character -- Pleasure
Summary What are the characteristics of a great teacher? What qualities of mind and spirit are necessary to help others acquire the knowledge through which they can understand and live a good life? In this book, James Banner and Harold Cannon draw on many years of experience to set forth the intellectual, moral, and emotional capacities that they believe the best teachers must possess. Their book is an inspiring guide to current and future schoolteachers and to college and
University professors - indeed to everyone who teaches anything to anyone else. Arguing that teaching is an art, Banner and Cannon help teachers understand its components. They analyze the specific qualities of successful teachers and the ways in which these qualities promote learning and understanding. Throughout, they illustrate their discussion with sharply etched portraits of fictional teachers who exemplify - or fail to exemplify - a particular quality. Neither a
How-to book nor a consideration of the philosophy, methods, or activities of teaching, this book, more precisely, assesses what it takes to teach. It encourages teachers to consider how they might strengthen their own level of professional performance
Subject Teaching.
Teacher effectiveness.
Teaching.
Author Cannon, Harold C., 1930-
LC no. 96034227
ISBN 0300069294 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300069297 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300078552 (paperback)
9780300078558 (paperback)