Spencer a rathus biography samples

Numerous personal experiences enter into Spencer Rathus's textbooks. He was the first member of his family to go to college and found college textbooks to be cold and intimidating.

Spencer a rathus biography samples

When his opportunity arrived to write college textbooks, he wanted them to be different--warm and encouraging, especially to students who were also the first generation in their families to be entering college. Rathus's first professional experience was teaching high school English.

Part of the task of the high school teacher is to motivate students. Through this experience he learned the importance of humor and personal stories, which later became part of his textbook approach. Rathus wrote poetry and novels while he was an English teacher--and some of the poetry was published in poetry journals.

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The novels never saw the light of day--which Rathus admits has saved him a great deal of embarrassment. Rathus earned his Ph.D. in psychology and then entered clinical practice and teaching. He has pub