Tales from the Teachers
Tales from the Teachers
Tales from the Teachers' Lounge : What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today by Robert Wilder
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Author: Robert Wilder
Page Count: 307 pages
Published Date: 26 Aug 2008
Publisher: DELTA
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780385339285
Download Link: Tales from the Teachers' Lounge What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today
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From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink--hailed by the "Los Angeles Times" as "consistently hilarious"--comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world's noblest profession--whether he's taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school--and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective--as a teacher, parent, and former student--to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd...and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experi-ment gone wrong-and dares to tell about it. He shares the surprising lessons he's learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers...manage "helicopter" parents...and cope with bullies--whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don't help). In Tales from the Teachers' Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life's learning curve with a warmth and humor you don't find in textbooks. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover of education. "From the Hardcover edition."
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Tales from the Teachers' Lounge : What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today by Robert Wilder
Author: Robert Wilder
Page Count: 307 pages
Published Date: 26 Aug 2008
Publisher: DELTA
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780385339285
Download Link: Tales from the Teachers' Lounge What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today
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From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink--hailed by the "Los Angeles Times" as "consistently hilarious"--comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world's noblest profession--whether he's taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully. Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school--and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective--as a teacher, parent, and former student--to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd...and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experi-ment gone wrong-and dares to tell about it. He shares the surprising lessons he's learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers...manage "helicopter" parents...and cope with bullies--whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don't help). In Tales from the Teachers' Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life's learning curve with a warmth and humor you don't find in textbooks. By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover of education. "From the Hardcover edition."
Read online Tales from the Teachers' Lounge : What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today Buy and read online Tales from the Teachers' Lounge : What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today Download Tales from the Teachers' Lounge : What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Tales from the Teachers' Lounge : What I Learned in School the Second Time Around-One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent