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From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink-hailed by the "Los Angeles Times" as "consistently hilarious"--comes a seriesof irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world's noblest profession-whether he'staming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully.
Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got ajob as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school-and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective--as a teacher, parent, and former student--to a series oflaugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd...and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups tosubbing for a class experi-ment gone wrong-and dares to tell about it.
He shares the surprising lessons he's learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe afour-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers...manage "helicopter" parents...and cope with bullies-whether of theschool-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donutsdon't help).
In Tales from the Teachers' Lounge, Robert Wilder charts life's learning curve with a warmth and humor you don't find in textbooks.By turns heartwarming, eye-opening, and uproariously funny, these pitch-perfect essays offer priceless lessons in life, family, learning, and teaching from a true lover ofeducation. "From the Hardcover edition."