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Peer reviewedElliott, Tomm J. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Describes a former superintendent's disconcerting swim in the teacher candidate pool while trying to find a teaching position without "pulling strings." After landing a job teaching 36 fifth graders, he soon realized that espousing methodologies is very different from actually doing them. Allowing students more responsibility for their learning…
Descriptors: Career Change, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Grade 5
