Why did I get a B? : and other mysteries we're discussing in the faculty lounge / Shannon Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Shannon, author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reed, Shannon.

Reed, Shannon--Anecdotes.

Teachers--United States--Biography.

Teachers.

Teaching.

United States.

Teaching--United States--Anecdotes.

Teaching--United States--Humor.

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Humor.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atria Books, 2020.

Summary:

"This hilarious, inspirational, and wise collection of personal essays and humor from a longtime educator explores all the joys, challenges, and absurdities of being a teacher, following in the footsteps of such classics as Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, The Courage to Teach, and Up the Down Staircase. Shannon Reed did not want to be a teacher, but now, after twenty years of working with children from preschool to college, there's nothing she'd rather be. In essays full of humor, heart, and wit, she illuminates the highs and lows of a job located at the intersection of youth and wisdom. Bringing you into the trenches of this most important and stressful career, she rolls her eyes at ineffectual administrators, weeps with her students when they experience personal tragedies, complains with her colleagues about their ridiculously short lunchbreaks, and presents the parent-teacher conference from the other side of the tiny table. From dealing with bullies and working with special needs students to explaining the unwritten rules of the teacher's lounge, Why Did I Get a B? is full of as much humor and heart as the job itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: You are not alone

Do you have what it takes to become a teacher? : a quiz

If people talked to other professionals the way they talk to teachers

How I came to teach preschool

Other vehicular styles of parenting

All of your children are broken

It's cooking day at preschool!

A letter from your child's teacher, on winter holiday gifts

Middle school parent-teacher conference night, in internet headlines

How I imagined my teachers conversed about me when I was 13

Memo to parents and legal guardians : our updated schedule for spirit days at Mapledale Middle School

How I came to teach high school

The unspoken rules of the teachers' lounge

An alphabet for the school at the end of Beach 112th

Student essay checklist

A conclusive ranking of the students at Hogwarts by order of how much i would enjoy teaching them

Dear parents : we're going with Hamilton-centered curriculum this year!

Somewhat more free

Random school motto generator

The other class

A field guide to spotting bad teachers

Paulie

It's your 20-minute lunch period!

To Stan, with love

Field trip rules

Our teachers reveal the holiday gifts they actually want

I'm going to make it through the last faculty meeting of the year by "yes, and..."-ing it

All part of a plan, maybe, or, how I came to be a professor

If Bruce Springsteen wrote about adjuncts

On adjuncting

Classic college movies updated for the adjunct era

A brief list of what students have called me

On student evaluations

My ideal student evaluation questionnaire

Worst, weirdest, and best

A short essay by a student who googled the professor instead of reading Jane Eyre

Moral quandaries for professors

I see you.

An incomplete list of sources I have seen plagiarized

I know you're asleep right now, but please get back to me ASAP

Sports analogies for academics

"Why did I get a B?" An answer in four fables

Taught

Everyone who attends must converse

My last pieces of good advice for teachers

How I imagine retirement from teaching will be at 72.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Reed, Shannon. Why did I get a B?

ISBN:

9781982136093

198213609X

OCLC:

1124350964

Publisher Number:

99984989751