Teacher Man
by Frank McCourt
Thirty years teaching in New York high schools: failures, improvisations, the students who taught him. The best memoir of teaching as a craft.
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you teach or want to understand teaching.
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Three things you will actually use
- Tell the truth to students.
- Improvise.
- Find your way to teach.
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