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Teacher
- Narrated by: Jo Van Es
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
Watching children learn is a beautiful and extraordinary experience....
It is a kind of magic, a kind of loving, a kind of art. It is teaching. Just teaching. Just what I do. What I did. Past tense.
In 2014, Gabrielle Stroud was a very dedicated teacher with over a decade of experience. Months later, she resigned in frustration and despair when she realised that the Naplan-test education model was stopping her from doing the very thing she was best at: teaching individual children according to their needs and talents.
Her groundbreaking essay 'Teaching Australia' in the February 2016 Griffith Review outlined her experiences and provoked a huge response from former and current teachers around the world. That essay lifted the lid on a scandal that is yet to properly break - that our education system is unfair to our children and destroying their teachers.
In a powerful memoir inspired by her original groundbreaking essay, Gabrielle tells the full story: how she came to teaching, what makes a great teacher, what our kids need from their teachers, and what it was that finally broke her. A brilliant and heartbreaking memoir that cuts to the heart of a vital matter of national importance.
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- JoJo
- 20-01-19
Utterly relatable.
Hilariously accurate memoirs of what teaching is really like. The writers of Waterloo road would be dumbfounded if they knew half of what real teachers actually deal with on a daily basis.
The job is life consuming and this book truly depicts that in all of its horrible, bare-faced ugliness!
I loved the complete honesty and bravery that Gabbie Stroud showed in retelling some of the ugly aspects of the job.
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- Katherine
- 13-06-19
the absolute truth about teaching
As a first year teacher, this book made me laugh, cry and feel very validated.
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