| ||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Hapless Teacher's Handbook for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Book Description
Product Description
When Phil Ball left university with a workmanlike English degree to his name and no discernible ambitions, he wasn't entirely sure what to do next. So like many before him he thought he'd giving teaching a go. Why not?
This is the comic story of one man's painfully slow metamorphosis into a teacher at an everyday comprehensive and his encounters with other remarkable teachers and pupils along the way. The good, the bad, the violent, the victimised and the clinically insane: from his first teaching practice nemesis, Alan Plant, who knows his dark secret, to the pupil who believes he is a reincarnation of the poet Andrew Marvell. It is a tale of the highs and lows of attempting to teach: from the joy of really making a difference to young minds to being physically set upon by a teenage horde.
And that's just what happens in the classroom. Beyond it is the real world of teachers behind staff-room doors: desperate lives, unseemly professional competition, a diet of cigarettes, alcohol and cold coffee, casual sex and general social dysfunction. Not a great example, but the truth...
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
I'm not a teacher, of course, but it doesn't matter.
This "handbook" isn't so much a collection of useful advice, rather it's a very funny look at the lot of teachers and kids swimming through the sticky marsh of education.
Well done to the author!
Phil Ball gets into the nitty gritty of what it means to be a teacher and what a difficult yet rewarding profession it obviously is. This book brought back so many memories and recollections it was frightening. Its easy to relate to much that is written.
Assuming this is Phil Ball's first 'comic' masterpiece, I sure hope he gets to write some more as its a long time since a book made me laugh out loud!!
After this I will appreciate teachers in a different light.
Like most jobs with such a strange and varied relationship with the 'customers' it brings unique challenges and he does cover them all. I saw myself in the staffroom description as well as many of my pupils from different schools.
Very well written, it can be used from a practical perspective for anyone embarking on this career or as a simple delve into the profession. Funny, frightening and a fruitful read.
Enjoy!
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
