I believe that Fires is a very helpful resource to be used by teachers. It offers such good insight into the minds of students and what they want to see and get out of their education. It is often hard to get the same information out of own students. However, I would not truly call this a textbook because most of the information in his book is so circumstantial. While this book does give a lot of helpful advice and information from the perspective of high school students, there is no saying that any of this information will truly work in your classroom. Not that I am saying that textbook give all the definitive answers, but they do give more concrete practices than what is found in Fires. Fires is still an extremely strong resource for classrooms, though, because it gives tools that can help us modify our lessons and ourselves to create a learning environment that can benefit as many students as possible.
After reading over my reflections, I feel as though my thoughts and opinions have not changed much. I agreed with almost all of the practices mentioned in Fires when I first read it, I believe that I still agree with them. I feel like I have grown, however, in my ability to determine how I should approach classroom management issues. Fires provided me with plenty of tools that I had not considered before that could help me create a classroom that is beneficial for most students, and also what supports I can provide to students that need different types of learning.
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