Teacher : one woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching / Gabbie Stroud.
Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xii, 339 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760295905
- Stroud, Gabbie -- Teachings
- Stroud, G. J. (Gabrielle J.), 1977- -- Teachings
- Stroud, G. J. (Gabrielle J.), 1977-
- Education -- Australia
- Teachers -- Australia -- Biography
- Educational tests and measurements
- Primary school teachers
- Teaching
- Education -- Australia -- 21st century
- Teaching
- Teachers -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Teaching -- Australia
- Educational tests and measurements -- Australia
- Primary school teachers -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia
- Australian
- 371.102 23
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 371.102 STR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 67953 |
"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.
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