Those Who Can Teach

by Kevin Ryan

This dynamic, reader-friendly text helps students make informed decisions about entering teacher education programs. The authors use multiple sources, including biographies and dialogues, to increase student interest and involvement with the material, and encourage students to regard becoming a teacher a positive challenge. The "Voices from the Classroom" feature provides interviews with real teachers, administrators, and other school personnel who give tips and advice to new teachers on key topics. "Pause and Reflect Questions" appear 3-4 times in each chapter to encourage students to stop and consider an idea and its relevance to their own experiences.

Genres: Education, Teaching, School, Nonfiction, Textbooks

549 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Hanna]

As a must-read book for Education class, I enjoyed it for the most part. Very informative as to most aspects involved in teaching. You will see many of the ideals and methods discussed occur when observing teachers. You get out of this book what you pour into it. You could merely learn more about teaching, or you can understand more about yourself in the process. You will find out whether you can teach in the way you believe children should be taught.

[Kathy]

I read this book for my Principles of Education class. There was lots of good information in the book. I learned a lot about what is right -- and wrong -- with education today, and it confirmed a lot of my personal thoughts about public school education. It would be interesting to see what revisions will be in this book in the next edition, given that online schooling has really changed the landscape in the last year.

[Conan Tigard]

This book was assigned for me to read in my "Foundations of Education" class at Chapman University. The thought of going back to school and reading all those dry textbooks really was not all that appealing. Color me surprised when I found that Those Who Can, Teach was well-written and very interesting.

I actually found myself looking forward to reading this book, and gained quite a bit of information while doing so. One thing I really liked is every once in a while the authors entered their dialog on the page discussing what they were thinking while writing on that subject.

Those Who Can, Teach really helped solidify my decision to enter the teaching profession.

[Book Him Danno]

A great book for those seeking to become teachers. I used this book in my orientation to teacher course and I will be keeping it to look back at and for use on the Pedagogy exam at the end of the year. Good book

[Megan Zalokar]

I have the 7th edition from one of my college courses.

[Alison]

This is an overview of the teaching profession. Since I'm new to the field, I learned a lot. The book is intended to be straight-forward and informational, nothing to excite the mind too much.

[Ashley]

Good for college freshmen considering, or unsure about, becoming an education major. Super annoying to read as a grad student in an education program, though.

[Brian]

Has a lot of good information, & it's actually a pretty decent read (even if it can be long winded.)

[Anne Putnam]

Some decent information but the writing is sub-par at best (and grammatically incorrect at worst!) and it costs WAY too much – if it’s going to be that expensive it needs to be much better-edited.

[Stella]

I had to read this book for my principles of education class very interesting book.

[Jacob]

Finally finished the textbook that I had to read for my education class this semester. 451 pages ✅