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The Hapless Teachers Handbook

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The Hapless Teachers Handbook

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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...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2007-03-01
Publication Date:
2007-03-01
Publisher:
Ebury Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0091908973
ISBN13:
9780091908973
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
374 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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