One Student at a Time
Published on 29. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
254 pages
978-1-964462-61-5 (ISBN)
Description
One Student at a Time is a memoir of some of the unbelievable experiences I have had during my extraordinary teaching career, including some of my extraordinary "life" experiences. The purpose of this book is to take the reader with me on my forty-seven-year journey into the classroom, from inner-city New York to the Bay Area, California, and from junior high school all the way up to four-year university and everything in between. My adventures in teaching and life are a real-life roller-coaster ride of failures, successes, frustrations, and pure joy. Those who have had experienced the wonders of teaching, will be able to relate to the ups and downs and storytelling that are inherent in being a successful teacher in an inner-city school. The book is filled with compelling and captivating stories including, My first day in front of a classroom which may have you rolling on the floor in laughter and my witnessing of a classroom miracle which changes Michael, a seventh grade student, life forever (have a tissue nearby), and Jacque Dawes, the toughest kid in the school who undergoes a 180 degree transformation only to have a tragic ending. Then there's Dorothy who's own tragic past keeps her from becoming the student she is meant to be. Get ready to laugh out loud while reading the Wheel of Fortune story where I tell a lie in order to get on the TV show and go on to win three consecutive airings. There are also the heartwarming stories about Dirk and Patricia who against all odds, overcame their fears and setbacks. These stories (and others) may actually inspire you to become a teacher.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-964462-61-5 (9781964462615)
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Ken Rand is an award-winning college math professor who retired in 2015 after 47 incredible years of teaching. Ken's recently published and acclaimed memoirs of his teaching experiences titled, "One Student at a Time: A Teacher's Journey", can be found in his website (KenRand.net), Amazon, Google Play, etc. Ken's teaching experiences include a variety of educational levels beginning with, junior high school, high school, and then two and four-year colleges. For a brief period, he was also the director of research and development for Creative Publications, a mathematics educational publisher. While working for Creative Publications Ken wrote and edited a variety of real-world activity books and created some classroom games. He has also written an Algebra textbook (published by West Publishers) called "Solving the Mystery." Some of the strategy games that he created have been sold in retail stores such as Macy's, J.C. Penney and stores throughout Canada and Europe. More recently, he is one of the co-authors and contributors of the book, "Habits of the Mind" (Stylus Publishers).Ken has been fascinated with word games for a long time and in 1976 he created a number of word games which he has now published as a complete book, "Afterwords".