Out-of-school tales of a reluctant educator
"Out-of-School Tales of a Reluctant Educator is a brilliant, insightful, vivid, heartwarming narrative of a reluctant teacher's attempt to navigate the sometimes treacherous and rollicking waters of adolescence. A week after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech on the...
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco, CA :
Pollywog Pond Press,
c2013.
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| Summary: | "Out-of-School Tales of a Reluctant Educator is a brilliant, insightful, vivid, heartwarming narrative of a reluctant teacher's attempt to navigate the sometimes treacherous and rollicking waters of adolescence. A week after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech on the National Mall to the thousands who had joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Marilyn Monks Page started her first teaching job at Milltown High School in Milltown, MA. A presidential assassination and a host of civil-rights marches, sit-ins, protests, and conflicts were the backdrop for the launching of her accidental career as an educator. Page had never wanted to be a teacher. She was out of work, there was a teacher shortage, Milltown High School needed a teacher, and the rest is history. She had no training, no coursework, knew nothing about adolescents, and, besides teaching world history and American geography, she was charged to teach first and second year Spanish even though she could barely speak a word. "Out-of-School Tales" spans forty-two years of poignant, unexpected, sometimes scary, and mostly hilarious events that will leave you laughing; the adolescent escapades might remind you of your own. At the same time, woven throughout, is a portrait of how a teacher develops her ability to teach. It's all here - experiences in all kinds of schools in inner-city, rural, and suburban districts in different parts of the country with different kinds of students, different kinds of colleagues, and different kinds of administrators; and all this within an historical context. From Billy giving her a very strange gift that he had crafted in shop class, to Page joining her neighbors in chasing two fat pigs down a country road in Vermont, there isn't a dull moment. It's history, it's sociology, it's education, it's all about adolescents, and it will make you laugh."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 204 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780615932170 (pbk.) 0615932177 (pbk.) |
