Product Description: Stories from the Heart is for, by, and about prospective and practicing teachers understanding themselves as curious and literate beings, making connections with colleagues, and researching their own literacy and the literacy lives of their students...read more

Product Description: The observations of four teachers assigned to a middle school in the United States for a year's teaching experience are recounted in this book. Their accounts reflect the idealism, enthusiasm, commitment and trepidation shared by the body of student teachers, offering a deep understanding of what teaching is about and why teachers continue in a profession often filled with difficulties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)