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Title: Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students (Teaching for Social Justice Series) by Gregory Michie ISBN: 0-8077-3888-3 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read
Comment: I am a Macon State College Student majoring in education. I chose to read "holler if you hear me" for my education class. I am so glad that I read this book. I think Gregory Michie did an excellent job writing this book. I have seen fiction movies about inner city schools but I have never read a book about true stories in these types of schools. These children were involved in gangs, drugs, and very harsh environments. This book definitely made me stop and think about the realities of the teaching atmosphere in urban cities. I applaud Gregory Michie for the courage and will power he had for all of his students. I think this book is helpful because upcoming teachers can learn from his mistakes. The book is easy to read and understand. I would definitely recommend "holler if you hear me" to future teachers.
Rating: 3
Summary: College Review
Comment: I am a college student majoring in education. I read Holler if you Hear Me and did a group presentation on it. I found the book to be very helpful in understanding different teaching procedures. I also loved the way it stressed teacher/student involvement, which I am a huge believer in. It focused on how teachers should become involved with their students outside of class, as well as inside the class. The stories in the book were based on a very gang prominent area in the South Side area of Chicago. If a teacher is dealing with these types of situations in his/her classroom, they should definately read this book. I really enjoyed the experiences that Mr. Michie shared.
Rating: 1
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Comment: As I read this book I can't help but think that Gregory Michie believes to be the "Great White Hope" for minorities. He lacks insight and knowledge of the inner cities. he has chosen to only see one side of the coin. He is typical of all those that want to excuse us minorities for doing poor in school and society. For becoming gang bangers and killing our own kind. Let's blame the system, the government because in doing so we set ourselves for failure, for how can we change something as the "system" and "the government" if it is out of our reach, according to this book and the author. As I read this book I see the lack of character and will of this so called good teacher.
I have had the unique experience of working with Chicago inner city kids too, but not in the classroom, but in a one to one basis for over 17 years and the conclusions reached by Gregory Michie are as erronous as the title of his book. You don't need to Hollar to be Heard. Kids today, especially inner city kids don't need more excuses for why they do bad in the classroom and in society. They need to be taught that every action leads to another action and at the end we have to take responsibilities for our own actions, no matter the system or government we are under.
Also I put into question the credebility of this author. There are many instances were he contradicts himself, for example, when he first writes how the Mexican kids in class cursed in Spanish, yet, he knew no Spanish, but he supposedly remembers vividly the words said by the students in Spanish. Also, at the beggining of the book with his whole mock trial of the students putting the food question in trial. Unless this kids spent countless hours learning court rules and court procedures, there is no way that things went as this author states.
Thus, I believe the book lacks credibility and that the book is just one more excuse for us minorities to do bad and for this self appointed "Great White Hope" to come in and supposedly fix things by blaming the system and government that supposeldy is out of reach of these "poor and innoncent" gang bangers.
i don't recomend this book, only if you want to have a good laugh at fiction and see the lack of character and weakness of a teacher. Who ever heard of a male teacher wanting to cry infront of a classroom, only in this book.
good material for a night around a camp fire and when the leaves are all used up, might as well put in this garbage in and used it to feed the fire, because that is all it does, feed the fire of minority insecurity and try to fire up the idea that minorites, without help from the government and the system that is against them, will ever make it. When in fact I know that minorites can make it and are not stupid or the poor people that Gregory Michie makes them out to be in his...book.
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Title: Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students by Kathleen Cushman, Lisa Delpit, Students of What Kids Can Do ISBN: 1565848020 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esme Raji Codell ISBN: 1565122798 Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Why Fly That Way?: Linking Community and Academic Achievement by Katherine Greeley ISBN: 0807739804 Publisher: Teachers College Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Power of Mindful Learning by Ellen J. Langer ISBN: 0201339919 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto ISBN: 0385333277 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 29 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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