TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stroud,G.J.
TI  - Teacher: one woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching 
SN  - 9781760295905
U1  - 371.102 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Stroud, Gabbie
KW  - Stroud, G. J.
KW  - Education
KW  - Australia
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - fast
KW  - Primary school teachers
KW  - Teaching
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Australian
KW  - Autobiographies
N2  - "Watching children learn is a beautiful and extraordinary experience. Their bodies transform, reflecting inner changes. Teeth fall out. Knees scab. Freckles multiply. Throughout the year they grow in endless ways and I can almost see their self-esteem rising, their confidence soaring, their small bodies now empowered. Given wings. They fall in love with learning. 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 thirty-something dedicated teacher with over a decade of experience. Months later, she resigned in frustration and despair when she realised that NAPLAN education model was stopping her from doing the very thing she was best at: teaching individual children according to their needs and talents. When she wrote the essay 'Teaching Australia' for the January 2016 Griffith Review, she 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 essay, Gabrielle tells the full story: how she came to teaching, what great teaching is, how a teacher works and what it was that finally broke her
ER  -