The Emergency Teacher
The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School
The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith's moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500 teacherless classrooms, instituted a policy of hiring emergency certified teachers to fill the void. Asquith, a twenty-five-year-old reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, joined their untrained ranks. Assigned to a classroom known as the Badlands, she was told to sink or swim. More challenging than the classroom are the trials she faces outside it, including the antics of an overwhelmed first…
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Weitere Autoren: Bowden, Mark (Vorb.) / Wong, Harry K. (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62914-650-8
- EAN: 9781629146508
- Produktnummer: 15861919
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 263 g
- Gewicht: 263
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Christina Asquith is a former reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has a master's degree in Educational Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Politics. She lives in Washington, D.C. Her web site is christinareporting.com
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