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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Teaching skills & techniques

• Full title: Hapless Teacher's Handbook
• Author: Phil Ball
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780091908973
• ISBN: 0091908973
• ID: 04014549
• Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• Weight: 236 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2007

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