9780385339278-0385339275-Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today

Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today

ISBN-13: 9780385339278
ISBN-10: 0385339275
Edition: First Edition
Author: Robert Wilder
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780385339278
ISBN-10: 0385339275
Edition: First Edition
Author: Robert Wilder
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

Summary

Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today (ISBN-13: 9780385339278 and ISBN-10: 0385339275), written by authors Robert Wilder, was published by Delacorte Press in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.09.

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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.

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