teacher-student relationships

The author describes her experiences teaching a group of seventh-grade girls at the private Laurel School in Ohio, and discusses her discoveries about the role of literacy in the lives of girls, and the need to support them in their quest to express themselves authentically.

Andy Crockett, who feels like his brother got all the intelligence and looks, doesn't fit in with the athletes, goth kids, or other misfits, but he does admire Mr. Retzlaff, who teaches a tenth grade class on WWII, Hitler, and the Holocaust, and he learns just what it may take to ace the class and impress his teacher.

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

The author visits with his former college professor, who gave him sound advice and guidance when he was younger. In the last months of his life, Morrie teaches Mitch abouth lessons in how to live once again.

An untenured instructor at a state university in mid-1980s Los Angeles goes against the system to help ethnic minority and immigrant students succeed.

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly 20 years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Morrie visited Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. This is a chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.

The story of a serious musician who reluctantly enters the teaching profession to remain afloat financially and discovers his true passion is teaching.

Retells the myth of Chiron, wisest of the centaurs who gives up immortality for Prometheus, in a modern setting where Chiron is a high-school science teacher, George Caldwell, and Prometheus is his fifteen-year-old son, Peter.

Discusses serious aspects of studentteacher relationships.