[senco-forum] book for convalescent TA

In a similar vein, I really enjoyed:

senco_rik wrote:
> In a similar vein, I really enjoyed:
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> 1 Out Of 10: From Downing Street Vision To Classroom Reality
> by Peter Hyman 
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> Peter moved from being a relatively lofty Downing Street
> policy maker/speech writer to work in a London comprehensive
> - and seems to have learned much from this "road to
> Damascus"  Insightful, well - written, and knows where the
> politicians are coming from  and going wrong. A bit like a
> "Yes Minister" book!
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> Rik
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> From: Kate Barnes <kate.senrab at btinternet.com>
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>> Does anyone have any suggestions for entertaining reading
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> for our HLTA
>
> It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of
> Classroom Hell (Paperback) by Frank Chalk 'Ask me my three
> main priorities for government, and I tell
> you: Education, education, education.' Those were the bold
> words of Tony Blair, before he became Prime Minister. A
> decade on, has he succeeded in making our schools the envy
> of the world? For FRANK CHALK, there's only one answer.
> Chalk has spent his adult life in the modern education
> system, so - unlike the Prime Minister - he knows what he's
> talking about. He is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary
> British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up
> the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to
> turn up. 'IT'S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING' is the blackly
> humorous diary of a year in his working life. Chalk
> confiscates porn, booze and trainers, fends off angry
> parents and worries about the few conscientious pupils he
> comes across, recording his experiences in a dry and very
> readable manner. He offers top tips for dealing with unruly
> children, muses on the shortcomings of the staff (including
> his own) and even spots the occasional spark of hope amid
> all the despair. His book will horrify (and amuse) millions
> of parents and will become a must-read for many of the
> country's 400,000 teachers. 
>
> >From Amazon:
>
> "The thought of listening to a teacher moaning about
> teaching would normally send me to sleep, but this book was
> recomended to me by a friend in that profession. It is
> absolutely brilliant! Loads of very funny stories, he
> doesn't make himself out to be a martyr like they usually do
> and he certainly doesn't pull any punches with either the
> kids, their parents or some of the other teachers in the
> hellhole he works at. 
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> If you're not familiar with modern state education then like
> me you will be shocked. What the hell has gone wrong with
> it? Chalk goes through all the problems and doesn't take the
> easy way out. He goes through his solutions too. All in all
> a great read that I couldn't put down."
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thanks for all the suggestions, as well as ordering a couple for our TA 
I think I shall get some from the library to read myself...
Kate