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Leaves of Paper: Poems and Stories About Teaching Kindle Edition

by Brian Jaeger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A book of poetry and other short pieces with introductions. It is chicken soup for the complete idiots who need a survival guide because they are dummies who are teachers. From a teacher who has taught for over a decade in a mean suburban high school, readers will learn how to stand and deliver in the blackboard jungle as their dangerous minds in the breakfast club lean on me and the dead poets society while waiting for superman in the race to the top with no child left behind.

The book should be required reading for all new teachers as they seek advice for the future, all current teachers as they seek confirmation someone understands them, and for all former teachers as they seek affirmation of a career well done.

If you are or were a teacher, read the book. If you know teachers and don't understand why they always want to talk about teaching, read the book. If you don't know any teachers and want to understand them in less than 50 pages, read the book. If you want to know what's happened to education without watching a documentary paid for by a political party, read the book.
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    49 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    June 30, 2014
  5. File size
    460 KB
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From the Author

When I was teaching, sometimes I thought I was alone. How could anyone else understand what I was going through? How could a book help me? Why would I want to read more about the profession that was stealing my soul?

But that is the point. You're not alone. Many of us have been there. If you teach ELA (English Language Arts), I'm right there with you, trying to figure out when to grade all the papers and how to plan the next unit in the three hours you have on a Sunday afternoon. This book won't make it easier. It won't fix anything. But you'll know that someone, somewhere understood what a few moments of your existence have been like, and that person wrote them down for the world to know.

Even if you teach math or science, social studies or world languages, FACE or tech ed, or even gym, you'll get it. Most of it, anyhow. If you're a tired teacher, a fired teacher, or a retired teacher, this book was written for all of us. It's not really for principals or school board members or politicians (although Scott Walker should read it). In fact, anyone CAN read it. Teachers will understand it.

About the Author

Brian Jaeger taught twelve years of high school English at a blue-collar, suburban school near Milwaukee, WI. He tried to force students to think beyond the mindset of being a lifelong resident of the most populated village in the state of Wisconsin, and he always saw himself as a mercenary from Milwaukee working with kids in Menomonee Falls who had yet to live up to the city's West Allis North reputation.

Brian knew what it was like to have others assume the worst about him as a student. He attended Wilbur Wright Middle School and John Marshall High School in Milwaukee at a time when those schools were seen as less than stellar. He proved those wrong who believed football players could not have a decent GPA or that MPS students could not excel in college.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LFTVL0S
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 30, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 460 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 49 pages

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Brian Jaeger

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I started writing in my friend's basement back in high school. Because of our love for the Indiana Jones series, we wrote about the adventures of Arizona and Utah, two American kids who searched for such items as the Sacred Beer Stein and the Bubbler of Youth. The writing was not great, but my friends laughed. Later, I wrote some ridiculous poetry, and my friends laughed. It took me a few years and some college classes to take writing a bit more seriously. However, I still want my writing to entertain.

As an English teacher, I helped students work with their writing. However, my true passion was my own writing. I could help them with voice, imagery, metaphor, and other techniques, but I could not move past the desire to create my own.

As a father, I encourage my own kids to be creative. As a husband, I try to write romantic lines for my wife, who expected a poem a day once she realized she was committed to a writer.

As a freelance web designer, I see each website I build as a work of modern art and literature.

I am cynical about the world, which helps me in writing humor and satire, but I also embrace the beauty of the world and my chance to add my voice to the human experience.

Most of my writing appears at http://mcnewsy.com, and my main business is web design at http://passiveninja.com and http://luthernet.org.

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