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Why Teach? (Paperback)
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Why Teach? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R468
Discovery Miles 4 680
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At the start of his career, Ben Newmark assumed that all the things
he was told to do, from how to teach to how to record the progress
of my pupils, were well planned and necessary. Sometimes things
didn't feel right and seemed bizarre but, for the first couple of
years of his career, he assumed this was because he was not
skilled, knowledgeable or experienced enough to understand the
rationale. But he couldn't keep this up forever. So he began to ask
questions. And then he asked more. And the more he learned the more
confused he became. To his horror it became clear that there wasn't
a masterplan. Instead, education was a world full of contradictory
thinking, bad planning and unintended consequences. Each chapter of
this book tries to answer one of the questions he struggled with,
trying to explain the reasons for the oddness and then give some
advice on how schools and individual teachers might manage it. And
it is possible to do better than manage it. For all its frustrating
weirdness there isn't another job in the world he'd rather do. When
finally he has to retire, he will be begging his closest school to
teach two or three classes a week. Including chapters such as: Why
are there so many spreadsheets in schools?; Why doesn't my school
behaviour system work?; Why is teaching making me so unhealthy?;
and Why won't my pupils work hard?
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