GTT: RAVE TESTIMONIALS
Your presentation was attention-grabbing. Your humour terrific!
A very constructive, refreshing, inspirational motivation presentation.
F.R., attendee, BCCPAC Leadership Conference, Vancouver, BC. Canada
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Formerly, I was a Special education teacher, Guidance Counsellor and Chair, Student Services and Special Programs. Over the years, I have recommended Nellie Jacobs’ Grading the Teacher for several reasons.
Nellie provides the parent advocate with essential tools that lead to greater student success. Her comments on recognizing good teaching and understanding teachers provide helpful benchmarks for both teachers and parents.
Student success results when there is a partnership between parents and teachers; Grading the Teacher provides parents with tools to enhance such a partnership. Particularly useful is the chapter, “Understanding Teachers”. The parent who is able to be objective about a teacher’s performance will be more effective in bringing about a desired change.
Grading the Teacher is a useful tool not only to parents, but to teachers as well.
Judy Winberg, Education Consultant in private practice, Toronto, Canada
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Read your book with great interest, and have used it …to support my arguments not only to BCCPAC but also to the press and to the local school board and others. … I do sense a growing concern to evaluate teachers as one of the best means of improving public education ...keep up the good work.
Peter Buitenhuis, former chair, English Department, Simon Fraser University, vice-president, DCPAC, West Vancouver, B.C.
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I ordered your book a few weeks ago. I have read it and loved it. I loved the way you were able to support both students and teachers. …The more we work on this the more we realized what an excellent tool your questionnaire is.
L. G., Norwell, MA, U.S.A.
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I must say it provides some clarity and objectivity and insight into what is often emotional, subjective and incomplete analysis from a parent's or student's perspective and I should add the school system ...I am writing to make you aware that someone has appreciated your book. …Thank you for the commitment to writing this book.
B. R., Ontario, Canada
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I obtained a copy of your book, Grading the Teacher, through OISE [Ontario Institute for Studies in Education] as my husband and I were searching for a way to deal with a very difficult Grade 5 Teacher. We found your report card to be clear and easy to fill out. It also gave us an objective means of evaluating this teacher rather than just saying "Our kid can't stand her and neither can we." As a result, we are making some progress with how the Principal is dealing with her.
S. W., Toronto, Canada
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Nellie Jacobs was the plenary speaker. She spent four years writing a book called Grading the Teacher. Handy little book too … Lots of practical advice on making mass schooling not seem so massive. …She also touched on the theme that came back again and again throughout the three day conference. She said parents must move from an advisory role to a decision-making role. Amen sister!
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