teacher-student relationships

Sixteen-year-old Darren Flynn, a popular, good-looking high school athlete who lacks self-confidence, learns that his jock friends are hatching a revenge act against their English teacher for failing a member of the swim team.

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.

Offers principles for raising healthy girls and suggests exercises for parents and teachers designed to help them bolster self-esteem in girls.

Louisiana-based educational author and speaker Breaux is a former curriculum coordinator and classroom teacher; she now trains and supports new teachers, trains assessors for the Louisiana Dept. of Education, and is an international presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research. The 20 chapters of her text offer new and experienced teachers, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers a look at 20 common teaching mistakes and how the best teachers avoid and correct them in order to take charge of themselves and their classrooms to create a calm, caring, structured learning environment. A sampling of topics: assuming students already know, engaging in power struggles, allowing for unstructured time, failing to organize, lowering expectations, neglecting priorities, being inconsistent, delaying feedback, and refusing to acknowledge mistakes. No subject index. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Describes fourteen practices the author has identified as characteristic of great teachers, and discusses the benefits of learning from the most effective educators.

In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life.

Magician, Mr. Norrel of Hurtfew Abbey, uses his powers against Napoleon and the French in 1806 and is soon challenged by Jonathan Strange, a novice magician, who becomes obsessed with the Raven King, the twelfth-century founder of English magic and bizarre forms of magic.

Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.

A growing attachment between fifteen-year-old Mary McNeal and her homeroom teacher tests her character and proves her maturity.

Presents the story of what happens in an Australian urban high school, as told alternately by the assistant principal and the most troublesome student in school; it attempts to show the uncomfortable relationship between staff, parents, and students.