The Secret Teacher: Dispatches from the Classroom

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The Secret Teacher: Dispatches from the Classroom

Author : Anonymous

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Highlights

English

Language

The Secret Teacher: Dispatches from the Classroom

Edition

321

Pages

9781783351275

ISBN-13

1783351275

ISBN-10

Guardian Faber Publishing

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

20 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived

Or so the Secret Teacher thinks. On his first day at an inner-city state school things don't quite go to plan . . .

His students are an unruly mob stuffed with behavioural issues, but somehow, the Secret Teacher needs to enthuse them with a love of books. Or at least keep them sitting at their desks until the end of the lesson. And then he's got to deal with marking, OFSTED, educational consultants, spreadsheets, personal statements, school trips, strikes, class, race, love, death, birth, manhood, dry cleaning, the end of literary culture . . .

This is a vivid account of the Secret Teacher's first few years in the classroom. Here he celebrates the extraordinary teachers he has worked with, and the kids: bolshie, bright, funny and absolutely eclectic.