Jane Morris is the pen name of a teacher who has taught English in a major American city for over ten years. In Teacher Misery, she presents a collection of short stories, essays, and artifacts, including real emails from parents, students and administrators, that encapsulate the "comical misery" that has become the teaching profession.
Fifty Years at School? Life Lessons: a Memoir Straight from Oxford to teaching in Comps? Education? Education?? Education??? Nostalgia? (No chance) Can you Teach Geography by Peeling an Orange? Do you Fatten a Pig by Weighing it? And.... Who Are the Alligators? Roll-Call, Re-Call, Rhapsody, Rant
'The book the world NEEDS right now by one of my heroes' - Scarlett Curtis 'I think at this point in time we're all in need of as much good news as we can get! Ruby can always be guaranteed to lift your spirits' - Annie Lennox on Twitter______________You would be forgiven for thinking 2020 was not the year for a book about good news. But now might be the time we need it most. Ruby Wax is here to reassure us with her brand new book, And Now For The Good News. This is her positivity prescription,...
More lessons and life from the Yorkshire Dales...All Teachers Bright and Beautiful is the concluding volume in Andy Seed's trilogy. As always, the book is peppered with the hilarious and heart-warming incidents that a life living and working with children inevitably contains. Andy Seed is sure to charm fans of Jack Sheffield and Gervase Phinn.Andy Seed is beginning his fifth year teaching at Cragthwaite Primary in the Yorkshire Dales, and as always a new term is full of surprises.These take the...
ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL tells the true story of Andy's first year at Cragthwaite Primary School - how he bravely negotiated the vagaries of the local dialect, made disastrous bids to provide a family home, naively and hilariously tried out new-fangled ideas in a school stuck in a 1950s time warp, and ultimately discovered a little part of England he was proud to call home.Warm, touching and very funny, All Teachers Great and Small transports you to a time that may be gone but has nev...
School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, in fact he is exceptional at most things except spelling. Wildly funny and full of sharp observation...
A memoir of lessons and life in the Yorkshire Dales...Warm, touching and very funny, All Teacher's Great and Small transports you to a time that may be gone but has never been forgotten. Andy Seed's memoir is sure to charm fans of Jack Sheffield and Gervase Phinn's nostalgic style. 'Heart-warming and hilarious' - Daily Mail Dear Mr Seed, I am sorry that are Jack was not at school yesterday. He put on such a groth spurt in the night that nun of his clowthes fitted im next morning so I had to tak...
Sitting More Comfortably on Your Couch (Woody Forest's Guides to Doing It Your Way)
by Woody Forest
The cartoons focus on a delightful array of familiar situations and characters, including teachers (from the underappreciated to the overrated), students (from the overachievers to the slackers), and parents (from the demanding to the uninterested). Such New Yorkergreats as Charles Barsotti, William Hamilton, Roz Chast, and many others examine education from every perspective with the insightful wit that is the signature of the magazine's cartoons.
'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world' Nelson Mandela A card isn't quite enough - how can you say 'thank you' to some of the unsung heroes of our time? A good teacher can turn a life around. A good teacher can change the course of a career. A good teacher can bring the best out of every student. A good teacher deserves to be celebrated. This is a gift - to the teachers who have taken the time to help us understand or appreciate a subject. To the teacher...
Steve Carrell the Pretend Asshole Ari Gold the Hollywood Asshole Simon Cowell the Trying-Too-Hard Asshole Mickey Rourke the Reformed Asshole Barney Stintson the True Asshole To truly be an asshole is an art form. It requires the perpetrator to be cocky yet quietly confident, snide as well as sincere, sneaky while in your face. Better men than most have failed miserably. That's why there's this guide the first book to walk you through the tricks of the trade and the numerous benefits the att...
"Law Of The Playground" has sold 12,000 copies in paperback, since its 2004 publication. It has also attracted widespread media interest, and has recently been snapped up by CH4, and made into a 6 part series, which will air this September and October. The series, currently in production, is tipped to feature some of Britain's best loved comedians. And, not only will we get to see their school photos, but we also will hear their schoolyard antics and the tricks they played on teachers and pupils...
For this first-ever paperback edition of If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?, the beloved collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s campus speeches, editor Dan Wakefield has unearthed three early gems as a sort of prequel—the anti-war Moratorium Day speech he gave in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in October 1969, a 1970 speech to Bennington College recommending “skylarking,” and a 1974 speech to Hobart and William Smith Colleges about the importance of extended families in an age of loneliness. Vonnegut himself nev...