Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

'One of the most inspiring books about teaching you'll ever read . . . superbly well written . . . brilliantly funny . . . read this book' Sunday TimesKate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught in her thirty-year career.Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of thirteen-year-olds. As she works to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons because of their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as she nurtures her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and refugees, watches them find their voice and produce work of heartbreaking brilliance.While Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and practically useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished and drastically under-resourced. This book will show you why it shouldn't be.'As vivid and honest an account of classroom teaching as you are likely to read . . . sometimes moving, sometimes comic and always engaging'Guardian'A book that will appeal not just to other teachers and parents, but to anyone who cares about education' The Times'Read it. It will make you a better person, kinder and more understanding' Spectator