Book: The Joy of Teaching

Peter Filene’s The Joy of teaching gives a lot of valuable of advice to someone who “accidentally” becomes a first-time teacher , including “don’t be a Perfectionist,” “don’t apologize for creating a less-than-state-of-art Web page for your course,” Teaching and not perishing,” “build a relationship with students,” etc. This book, no doubt, provides the new teachers confidence walking into the classrooms. However I found the vital element of this book is missing: “the joy of teaching” as the title suggests. I cannot deny that I am a little disappointed for not able to find “the joy of teaching” in this book. And I personally do not like the font size of this book. It is at least 16 points (?) – The fonts are as big as large print book. Otherwise it is a very useful and practical book for new teachers.