It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

Rademacher, Tom

ISBN 10: 151790112X / ISBN 13: 9781517901127

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2017

Beschreibung

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.61.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G151790112XI4N10

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 151790112X
• ISBN-13: 9781517901127
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Gewicht: 0,61 Pfund

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Inhaltsangabe

Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014s Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what hes talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Wont Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its messy glory. The book follows a year of teaching, with each chapter tackling a different aspect of the job. Pulling no punches (and resisting no punch lines), he writes about establishing yourself in a new building; teaching meaningful classes, keeping students a priority; investigating how race, gender, and identity affect your work; and why its a good idea to keep an extra pair of pants at school. Along the way he answers the inevitable and the unanticipated questions, from what to do with Google to how to tell if youre really a terrible teacher, to why Keep your head downmight well be the worst advice for a new teacher. Though directed at prospective and newer teachers, It Wont Be Easy is mercifully short on jargon and long on practical wisdom, accessible to anyone-teacher, student, parent, pundit-who is interested in a behind-the-curtain look at teaching and willing to understand that, while there are no simple answers, there is power in learning to ask the right questions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Rademacher is an English teacher in Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in EdPost, MinnPost, and on his blog, Mr. Rad's Neighborhood, and he speaks about teaching at universities, conferences, and TEDx events. In 2014 he was honored as Minnesota's Teacher of the Year. Dave Eggers is author of ten books, including, most recently, Heroes of the Frontier. He is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house in San Francisco, California, and cofounder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country.