
Why Did I Get a B?
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Shannon Reed did not want to be a teacher, but now, after twenty years of working with children from preschool to college, there's nothing she'd rather be. "With an irresistible combination of compassion, humor, and engaged storytelling" (Shelf Awareness), her essays illuminate the highs and lows of a job located at the intersection of youth and wisdom. Bringing you into the trenches of this most important and stressful career, she rolls her eyes at ineffectual administrators, weeps with her students when they experience personal tragedies, complains with her colleagues about their ridiculously short lunchbreaks, and presents the parent-teacher conference from the other side of the tiny table.
From dealing with bullies and working with special needs students to explaining the unwritten rules of the teacher's lounge this "starkly honest, at times irreverent" (Library Journal) look at teaching is full of as much humor and heart as the job it celebrates.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Author's Note
- Preface: You Are Not Alone
- Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Teacher?: A Quiz
- If People Talked to Other Professionals the Way They Talk to Teachers
- Part I: Preschool, Elementary School, and Middle School
- Chapter 1. How I Came to Teach Preschool
- Chapter 2. Other Vehicular Styles of Parenting
- Chapter 3. All Your Children Are Broken
- Chapter 4. It's Cooking Day at Preschool!
- Chapter 5. A Letter from Your Child's Teacher, on Winter Holiday Gifts
- Chapter 6. Middle School Parent-Teacher Conference Night, in Internet Headlines
- Chapter 7. How I Imagined My Teachers Conversed about Me When I Was Thirteen
- Chapter 8. Memo to Parents and Legal Guardians Re: Our Updated Schedule for Spirit Days at Mapledale Middle School
- Part II: High School
- Chapter 9. How I Came to Teach High School
- Chapter 10. The Unspoken Rules of the Teachers' Lounge
- Chapter 11. An Alphabet for the School at the End of Beach 112th
- Chapter 12. Student Essay Checklist
- Chapter 13. A Conclusive Ranking of the Students at Hogwarts by Order of How Much I Would Enjoy Teaching Them
- Chapter 14. Dear Parents: We're Going with a 'Hamilton'-Centered Curriculum This Year!
- Chapter 15. Somewhat More Free
- Chapter 16. Random School Motto Generator
- Chapter 17. The Other Class
- Chapter 18. A Field Guide to Spotting Bad Teachers
- Chapter 19. Paulie
- Chapter 20. It's Your Twenty-Minute Lunch Period!
- Chapter 21. To Stan, with Love
- Chapter 22. Field Trip Rules
- Chapter 23. Teachers Reveal the Holiday Gifts They Actually Want
- Chapter 24. I'm Going to Make It through the Last Faculty Meeting of the Year by "Yes, and."-ing It
- Part III: College
- Chapter 25. All Part of a Plan, Maybe
- or, How I Came to Be a Professor
- Chapter 26. If Bruce Springsteen Wrote about Adjuncts
- Chapter 27. On Adjuncting
- Chapter 28. Classic College Movies Updated for the Adjunct Era
- Chapter 29. A Brief List of What Students Have Called Me
- Chapter 30. On Student Evaluations
- Chapter 31. My Ideal Student Evaluation Questionnaire
- Chapter 32. Worst, Weirdest, and Best
- Chapter 33. A Short Essay by a Student Who Googled the Professor Instead of Reading 'Jane Eyre'
- Chapter 34. Moral Quandaries for Professors
- Chapter 35. I See You.
- Chapter 36. An Incomplete List of Sources I Have Seen Plagiarized
- Chapter 37. I Know You're Asleep Right Now, but Please Get Back to Me ASAP
- Chapter 38. Sports Analogies for Academics
- Chapter 39. "Why Did I Get a B?": An Answer in Four Fables
- Chapter 40. Taught
- Chapter 41. Everyone Who Attends Must Converse
- Part IV: A Few Last Tidbits for the Cool Kids Who Like to Hang Out in My Room after School Is Out
- Chapter 42. My Last Pieces of Good Advice for New Teachers and Professors
- Chapter 43. How I Imagine Retirement from Teaching Will Be at Seventy-Two
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Credits
- Copyright
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