1. Teaching--Anecdotes. 2. Teacher-student relations--Anecdotes.

Scope and Contents Stories teachers tell is a collection of anecdotes divided into four major groups: beginning teachers, successes, failures, and humorous incidents. At the end are two more stories that didn't fit this scheme, both by sisters of St. Benedict's Monastery in St. Joseph: S. Kristin Malloy tells about the punishment of three sisters in the 1950s over "Catcher in the Rye;" S. André Marthaler describes her seventh-grade teacher's infectious love of reading. The book is edited by Gretchen Kresl...