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by Jonathan Smith (Author) "-OK, hands up, I'll come clean, I'm a teacher ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (7 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349113882
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349113883
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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'In part it's the thoughtful autobiographical reflections of a wise and successful teacher. At another level it's a rather challenging how-to manual for less experienced teachers and for parents...Every jargon-free word that he writes rolls pleasurably round the mouth like good brandy. The prose is marked by a rare and incisive blend of informality and precision' INDEPENDENT 'A true, wise, morale-boosting manifesto' Peter Conrad, OBSERVER 'He should be compulsory reading not only for aspiring teachers but also for complacent education ministers who keep on interfering in a job that's exhausting enough already.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'An inspiring account.' TES

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We are all caught up in our children's lives. We all remember our own schooldays and, as parents, we watch anxiously as our children go through it. As we look at the world of teaching from the outside we wonder not only what is going on but what we can do to help. Jonathan Smith, a born teacher and writer, takes us on his personal journey from his first days as a pupil through to the challenges of his professional and private life on the other side of the desk. He makes us feels what it is like to be a teacher facing the joys and the battles of a class. How do you influence a child? He describes how you catch and stretch their minds. What difference can a teacher make, or how much damage can he do? Should clever pupils teach themselves? What works in the classroom world and what does not? And while influencing the young, how do you develop yourself, how do you teach yourself to keep another life and find that elusive balance? This is a compelling and combative story, warmly anecdotal in approach, yet as sharp in its views of the current debates as it is sensitive in its psychological understanding. From the first page to the last, and without a hint of jargon, this inspiring book rings true.

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5.0 out of 5 stars So glad I read this!, 4 Mar 2001
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This review is from: The Learning Game: A Teacher's Inspirational Story (Hardcover)
This is a marvellous book. Every student teacher, every practising teacher - and every parent! - should read it.

This is not just a handbook for teachers: it's a life-affirming look at life. Nothing betrays a person's nature more than their creative work: Jonathan Smith must be a lovely man.

Beware though: it may make you feel (as I did) that you should immediately go out and train as a teacher!

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars AT LAST, A BOOK ON TEACHING & LIFE, NOT A TRENDY MANUAL, 17 April 2000
This review is from: The Learning Game: A Teacher's Inspirational Story (Hardcover)
I trust teachers with a thorough working knowledge of student pranks. They are the kind who keep their eyes open and know what they're up against. And if that knowledge coincides with intellectual life and a sensibility which breathes poetry like air, then you can bet that the energy and invention of classroom pranksters has been chanelled into enthusiasm and interest.

So it's no surprise to discover that Jonathan Smith is the man who taught the novelist Vikram Seth, poets like Christopher Reid and Charles Boyle, the biographer Anthony Seldon, entertainers and actors, and even the oscar-winning maker of When We Were Kings, Vikram Jayanti. (Tip: if your kids are called Vikram send them to Tonbridge School.) But you can tell that this man is much more than a guru to the great and the good, for his real interest lies in the day-to-day faces which have confronted him, year-in year-out, from the circle of desks drawn round his own: the over-keen, the not-so-keen, the sensitive, the pseud-ish, the bruisers, the drifters, the thought criminals, the hecklers and the mutes. All the anecdotes ring true, and though he gripes and growls about the perceived dowdiness of teaching, he is never tempted to colour his observations from a phoney palette.

Confession: I can't bear the sort of book by professionals of any kind who talk at you as though you're an acolyte in a masterclass. But this is not the book of a patronising expert who expects you to take notes and memorise bullet points. What you read here you remember anyway, probably because it's really a story, not an essay - and certainly not a lecture. The fabric of his life is teaching and he opens his life to the reader - you hear a real voice and follow a highly personal narrative which is by turns contrite and celebratory. He doesn't know it all, thank God, but what he knows is compelling and persuasive - and more than a little humbling.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This guy is too cool!, 22 Mar 2003
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We were taught by Mr Smith for a collective 6 years (two of us) and can safely say he has this teaching lark down to a fine art. No surprises then, that this book rules! Go buy it if you're interested in becoming a teacher, If you've got kids, and particularly if you're part of the Smith Fan Club (ie. anyone who's ever met him!) What can we say? The man is a god, and not the phoney kind either! He writes, teaches, directs and above all inspires (he can also talk to birds)
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