For Real, For Real: The Entirely True Story of a First-Time Teacher and an Inner-City School
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1432776118 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The most realistic life in a first year teacher This book is such an honest view of the naivete of a first year teacher regardless of the school setting. His love for teaching and students is obvious and gut wrenching. My district has changed to something close to where he is, but true love for the kids and a stick to it attitude is to his students's benefit.This should be a book used to teach potential teachers. It is a realistic view of our classrooms, no matter where you teach. It is an honest view of what we, as teachers, face no matter where you teach. I laugh with him and love his students. A true writer of the truth
There was Manny, an oversized class clown with Ivy League dreams and a million-dollar smile, a city kid who liked NASCAR and got kicked out of Catholic school for carrying nun chucks. I know I did. His writing has won awards from the Keystone Press Association, the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Journalists, and the Associated Press Sports Editors. Then, he walked out. I taught kids who seemed to provoke every emotion possible, laughter and love and rage, often all of them in a single period. I was a white, middle-class, Midwestern man thrown into a Philadelphia school that had performed so poorly it was surrendered to state control. And there were others too, every one of them struggling to survive in a city that would witness more than 400 homicides in a single year. There was Romeo, a kid who got arrested for making his own adult films and Randy, a kid whose father was serving life in prison for shooting a police officer. My story is different than all those feel-good, happy-ending Freedom Writer type films that seem to appear in theaters every few years. He currently lives and teaches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.. It is real. For real, for real. I taught through the whirlwinds of overworked teachers, u