Okay, first Gallagher is a great writer and has a lot of great ideas. Chapter 8 in particular starts off with Gallagher explaining that he teaches mini lessons based on statemetns about the importance of reading. These categories like "reading makes you smarter" give Gallagher the opportunity to teach students answers to questions that they may already be asking. "How is this helping me?" would be a big question for me. I am definitely going to rip off this particular idea because it is a great one.
Now that that is out of the way I would like to see a book by Gallagher that gives information regarding culture and language differences between teacher and student. Magnolia High School in Anaheim California is where Gallagher is employed. This school has a 67% hispanic student population. Now, it is obvious to me that Gallagher is a successful teacher but what I really want to know is how he adapted to teaching students who belonged to cultures that he may have been unfamiliar with and who may have learned English as a second language. This is something that It think about because I don't plan on staying in Southwest Missouri, home of the Midwestern Anglos, forever. This is also a subject that has never been thoroughly discussed in my education classes. Can you imagine your first teaching job being at a school where you had no idea how to reach your students because of cultural differences? That is a scary prospect for me and I would like to know how he did it.
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I agree- Gallagher is a great writer and he has some really great lessons, activities, and points. What i really like about it, is that the reading is more conversational than professional. This makes the read go faster and allow me to relate to the information even more.
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