Fires In The Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students
By (Author) Kathleen Cushman
The New Press
The New Press
1st April 2005
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Secondary schools
373.1102
Paperback
224
Width 180mm, Height 155mm
274g
An invaluable guide to teaching teenagers, featuring the uncensored advice of the students themselves.
"In this book, students get a rare opportunity to voice their opinions about what works and what doesn't in the classroom." - The Los Angeles Times; "This book turns the student-teacher relationship upside down... The bits of advice suggest ways to deepen the unspoken bond between students and teachers." - The Chicago Tribune; "[Turns] the tables on adults and tells them how to do their jobs." - The New York Times"
Kathleen Cushman is the author of What We Can't Tell You: Teenagers talk to adults in Their Lives and co-author of The Real Boys Workbook and Learning and The Real World. As an author for What Kids Can Do, Inc., a national non-profit organisation, she works to bring forward the voices of student writers around the nation.