Teacher & Child

Dr. Haim G. Ginott wrote an academic book entitled 'Teacher & Child' which is a book that I had read for a teacher education course in the late eighties or the early nineties. The course was believe it or not 'Teaching Reading in the Elementary Classroom. This is a book that covers various ideas that a teacher should do and not do in their various classrooms. There are various vignettes throughout the book explaining proper procedures and policies that all teachers must follow liking them or not. After re-reading this book again and seeing it from the angle of a writer it brought back a few memories of my early education. There was a vignette about a social studies teacher Mr. R (I also had a teacher Mr. R) that seemed to compare his class to another easier class if you did not like his way of teaching, which was lecture and discussion versus drawing maps and completing study guides in that other class. In the end I am glad I had his class and learned a lot. 'Teacher & Child' is really all about communication in how and how not to communicate with other teachers, parents, students and administrators. This book may be old but I believe it can still hold up in today's classrooms.