eBook Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers ePub

One-room schools once provided education to a majority of Kentucky citizens, and Montell's book .

One-room schools once provided education to a majority of Kentucky citizens, and Montell's book relates the characteristics and attitudes of those involved. It's entertaining collection of memories allows the individual voices of the teachers to be heard once more. ―Freda Klotter, teacher and co-author of A Concise History of Kentucky. For many who read this book, a window will finally open on the one-room school experience and what it meant for those who taught in that environment or who learned inside the walls of the small schoolhouses across Kentucky. A fascinating and informational look into Kentucky's educational past.

assembling a fun and fascinating collection of schoolroom stories that chronicle a golden era in Kentucky.

In Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers, William Lynwood Montell reclaims an important part of Kentucky's social, cultural, and educational heritage, assembling a fun and fascinating collection of schoolroom stories that chronicle a golden era in Kentucky. The firsthand narratives and anecdotes in this collection cover topics such as teacher-student relationships, day-to-day activities, lunchtime foods, students' personal relationships, and, of course, the challenges of teaching in a one-room school.

Montell even includes some of his own memories from his days as a pupil in a one-room school. Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers is a delightful glimpse of the history of education. He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Start by marking Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers as Want to Read . by. William Lynwood Montell.

Start by marking Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. In an educational era defined by large school campuses and overcrowded classrooms, it is easy to overlook the era of one-room schools, when teachers filled every role, including janitor, and provided a familylike atmosphere in which children also learned from one another.

He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. One-room schools once provided education to a majority of Kentucky citizens, and Montell's book relates the characteristics and attitudes of those involved.

William Lynwood Montell . Montell includes tales about fund-raising pie suppers, pranks, outrageous student behavior (such as the quiet little boy whose first "sharing" involved profanity), and variety of other topics. Montell even includes some of his own memories from his days as a pupil in a one-room school. Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachersis a delightful glimpse of the history of education. eISBN: 978-0-8131-2980-8. Published by: University Press of Kentucky.

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Montell found his valued informants through the Kentucky Retired Teachers Association as well as through Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky (2-3).

Already married and with a child, Casey enrolled in college at age thirty, later completed medical school, and began a successful career as a family practitioner in the 1990s.