Why did I get a B? : and other mysteries we're discussing in the faculty lounge /
"This hilarious, inspirational, and wise collection of personal essays and humor from a longtime educator explores all the joys, challenges, and absurdities of being a teacher, following in the footsteps of such classics as Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, The Courage to Teach, and Up the D...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: You are not alone
- Do you have what it takes to become a teacher? : a quiz
- If people talked to other professionals the way they talk to teachers
- How I came to teach preschool
- Other vehicular styles of parenting
- All of your children are broken
- It's cooking day at preschool!
- A letter from your child's teacher, on winter holiday gifts
- Middle school parent-teacher conference night, in internet headlines
- How I imagined my teachers conversed about me when I was 13
- Memo to parents and legal guardians : our updated schedule for spirit days at Mapledale Middle School
- How I came to teach high school
- The unspoken rules of the teachers' lounge
- An alphabet for the school at the end of Beach 112th
- Student essay checklist
- A conclusive ranking of the students at Hogwarts by order of how much i would enjoy teaching them
- Dear parents : we're going with Hamilton-centered curriculum this year!
- Somewhat more free
- Random school motto generator
- The other class
- A field guide to spotting bad teachers
- Paulie
- It's your 20-minute lunch period!
- To Stan, with love
- Field trip rules
- Our teachers reveal the holiday gifts they actually want
- I'm going to make it through the last faculty meeting of the year by "yes, and..."-ing it
- All part of a plan, maybe, or, how I came to be a professor
- If Bruce Springsteen wrote about adjuncts
- On adjuncting
- Classic college movies updated for the adjunct era
- A brief list of what students have called me
- On student evaluations
- My ideal student evaluation questionnaire
- Worst, weirdest, and best
- A short essay by a student who googled the professor instead of reading Jane Eyre
- Moral quandaries for professors
- I see you.
- An incomplete list of sources I have seen plagiarized
- I know you're asleep right now, but please get back to me ASAP
- Sports analogies for academics
- "Why did I get a B?" An answer in four fables
- Taught
- Everyone who attends must converse
- My last pieces of good advice for teachers
- How I imagine retirement from teaching will be at 72.