| Description |
xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jules Feiffer -- 1. August: Beginning the Year -- 2. Routines and Rituals: Making the Room Theirs -- 3. Collages: Making Art -- 4. Finding Curriculum: A Study of Squirrels -- 5. The Uses of Literacy: Constructing Knowledge -- 6. The Uses of Literacy: Reading and Writing -- 7. Midwinter Doldrums and Quarrels -- 8. Welcome to the Aquarium: Knowing One Child -- 9. June: Meanings and Metaphors at the End of the Year -- 10. Postscript: Being a Teacher |
| Summary |
"For parents as well as for new and experienced teachers alike, Diamond lays out the logic behind the routines and rituals children need to thrive. Like Tracy Kidder's Among Schoolchildren, Welcome to the Aquarium offers a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an elementary school classroom, but from the perspective of an insider. The bigger issues addressed, such as the conditions that foster creativity and group feeling as well as the relationship between work and identity, have implications far beyond the classroom walls."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-236) and index |
| Subject |
Classroom management.
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Curriculum planning.
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Kindergarten teachers.
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| LC no. |
2008024221 |
| ISBN |
9781595581716 (hc.) |
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