You Are Thinking of Teaching?

SEYMOUR B. SARASON is professor emeritus of psychology in the Department of Psychology and at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Case for Change (Jossey-Bass, 1993), The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform (Jossey-Bass, 1990), Schooling in America: Scapegoat and Salvation (1983), and The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change (2nd ed., 1982).

• 1. Justifying this Book. 2. Who Is "You" 3. When Should You Decide? 4. Why Teaching?. 5. Satisfaction from Student and Parents. 6. Satisfaction from Colleagues. 7. You Know More than You Think and More than They Give You Creditfor. 8. The Teacher of Whom? 9. Change, Resistance, and Reflection. 10. Understanding Children and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. 11. The Nonreading Professional.

"You Are Thinking of Teaching? is a lovely essay on the consideration of teaching. It asks those who are thinking of teaching to ask questions, to ponder their decision, and to pursue the information they need to make a reasoned choice. There is nothing like it in the professional literature, which makes it all the more valuable." --Pat Wasley, senior researcher for change, Coalition of Essential Schools