The Hapless Teacher's Handbook Paperback / softback
by Phil Ball
Paperback / softback
Description
When Phil Ball left university with a workmanlike English degree to his name and no discernible ambitions, he wasn't entirely sure what to do next.
So like many before him he thought he'd giving teaching a go.
Why not?This is the comic story of one man's painfully slow metamorphosis into a teacher at an everyday comprehensive and his encounters with other remarkable teachers and pupils along the way.
The good, the bad, the violent, the victimised and the clinically insane: from his first teaching practice nemesis, Alan Plant, who knows his dark secret, to the pupil who believes he is a reincarnation of the poet Andrew Marvell.
It is a tale of the highs and lows of attempting to teach: from the joy of really making a difference to young minds to being physically set upon by a teenage horde. And that's just what happens in the classroom. Beyond it is the real world of teachers behind staff-room doors: desperate lives, unseemly professional competition, a diet of cigarettes, alcohol and cold coffee, casual sex and general social dysfunction.
Not a great example, but the truth...
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Ebury Publishing
- Publication Date:01/03/2007
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- ISBN:9780091908973
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Ebury Publishing
- Publication Date:01/03/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780091908973