relate to several statements in the introduction and the beginning of chapter one from the book, Why We Teach Now. Nieto started several reasons why teachers are leaving the profession. She also spoke about hearing acronyms, and test related jargon more than learning and fun when it came to conversations about teaching. (2014) I did not want to be part of that anymore so I left the profession for a couple years ago. I felt burnt out, overworked, underappreciated, and frustrated that I felt like student’s
Finding Fish Assignment 1 Barbara Calhoun SWK 358 The book, finding fish, is a poignant autobiography of the life of Antwone Quenton Fisher, an African American boy who suffered a tumultuous childhood in a foster care setting. He was born on 8-3-1959 in a Cleveland prison to Eva Mae Fisher. She was incarcerated for the shooting death of his father, her boyfriend at the time, Eddie Elkins. Initially, he spent his first few weeks of his life in a Cleveland orphanage. Then he was fostered
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