The Quality School Teacher: Specific Suggestions for Teachers Who Are Trying to Implement the Lead-Management Ideas of the Quality School in Their C

by William Glasser

The author of The Quality School shows teachers how to set up the most effective classroom environment for their students, presenting explicit, practical examples for encouraging an atmosphere in which students will want to learn.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Psychology, Professional Development, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1993

Reviews

[Sheryl McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading Dr. Glasser's book, The Quality School, I decided I wanted to read this book, The Quality School Teacher. It's been a helpful book that I read at least once a year. While I may not follow all the examples, I believe the basic tenets for being a Quality School Teacher are quite helpful in gaining an understanding of how to teach effectively in a way that students develop autonomy over their positive decisions, their learning, and their future.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I worked at a quality school! At times suggestions seemed more like idealistic theories rather than practical strategies. However, I do see lead-management, as opposed to boss-management, as being effective in promoting academic success for all students.

[Fishface · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only got to read part of this, on a brief loan. Intriguing principles in line with Choice Theory, but it sounds as if the entire public-school system would need to be torn down to the ankles and rebuilt before such a thing would ever be allowed...

[Milena Keser]

I've found several ideas really exciting - the library in the classroom through collecting books from the locals, the buying of the house ... - yet haven't truly agreed with the mentality as a whole - "teaching children only what's necessary for life" is somehow cursory view of what an education of a young person is all about. I believe a "quality teacher" is supposed to gently trick a child into thinking that everything is going to be useful. And then it will be.
Also, I strongly disagree with the fact that learning rivers, world cities, exact years of history occurrences and especially poems by heart should be discarded. To ask a child to learn a poem by heart is the greatest gift of education we can possibly give to him.