It's a Teacher's Life!: A Collection of Poems Set in a Girl's Private School - Couverture souple

Harper, Helena

 
9781847481825: It's a Teacher's Life!: A Collection of Poems Set in a Girl's Private School

Synopsis

No doubt you remember your life at school as a pupil - the long lessons, stringent rules and chaotic classrooms - but what was it like from the teacher's perspective? Did they savour the experience of setting and marking our homework? Did they get a kick out of writing our reports? And, most intriguingly, what did they get up to in the staffroom? If you've never been there yourself, you need to follow Helena Harper into this alternative school world of coffee addiction, frantic marking, lesson-planning and inspections. She answers all of your questions and more, and her insightful, evocative and often sardonic descriptions leave you more appreciative of the trials and tribulations (and the occasional pleasures) of being the dragon in front of the whiteboard. It's a Teacher's Life. . . ! will open the eyes of the pupils who always thought that teachers didn't exist outside of school hours. . . On the other hand, with such a long roll-call of meetings, assessments and after-hours activities, perhaps they were right all along!

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Présentation de l'éditeur

No doubt you remember your life at school as a pupil - the long lessons, stringent rules and chaotic classrooms - but what was it like from the teacher's perspective? Did they savour the experience of setting and marking our homework? Did they get a kick out of writing our reports? And, most intriguingly, what did they get up to in the staffroom? If you've never been there yourself, you need to follow Helena Harper into this alternative school world of coffee addiction, frantic marking, lesson-planning and inspections. She answers all of your questions and more, and her insightful, evocative and often sardonic descriptions leave you more appreciative of the trials and tribulations (and the occasional pleasures) of being the dragon in front of the whiteboard. It's a Teacher's Life. . . ! will open the eyes of the pupils who always thought that teachers didn't exist outside of school hours. . . On the other hand, with such a long roll-call of meetings, assessments and after-hours activities, perhaps they were right all along!

Biographie de l'auteur

Helena Harper was born in 1960 and, after attending grammar school, went to university, where she graduated in languages and International Relations in 1984. She spent two years in banking before deciding to train as a teacher and did a PGCE in modern languages at Exeter University. She has spent nineteen years working in several girls' private schools and, besides writing, enjoys reading, walking, tennis, Pilates, dancing and spending time with her niece and nephew.

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