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Title: Unrealistic Read
Review: Overall, I can't say this book was that terrible, however because it was somewhere in the 300s page wise, I was easily burned out on finishing it. I have noticed that good teaching books get the point across in a little over 100 pages, this one repeats itself so much that I was ready to stab myself in the eye after the 3rd chapter. This is one of those "pefect world" books that makes you question when the last time the authors were in the classroom. It seems to center around mostly secondary situations. The authors tell stories about great classrooms but never explain how to achieve them, or they talk about strategies that everyone does as if it was something they thought up themselves yesterday. My main quesion for them, how do you expect teachers to know how to teach this way? Most secondary ed students take barely any methods courses and mostly just subject area courses, they teach the way there were taught.... taking notes.
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