Publication

2016 - Blue Rider Press

Language

English

Word Count

179,750 words, Guess

Page Count

719 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Better World BooksO6-EAU-475
  • Better World Books9780399160981
  • Better World Books082-BAB-789
  • Open LibraryOL26196097M

Classifications

  • LCCLB2844.1.S8B28 2016
  • LCCLB2844.1.S8 B28 2016

Description

Nicholson Baker tells us all about the time in 2014 he worked as a substitute teacher in the Maine public school system.

Description

In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. Nearly every morning, he awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to a nearby school. When he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. In Baker's hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew -- mundane worksheets, recess time-outs, surprise nosebleeds, rebellions, griefs, minor triumphs, kindergarten show-and-tell, daily lessons on everything from geology to metal tech to the Holocaust -- as he and his pupils struggle to find ways to get through the day. Baker is one of the most inventive and remarkable writers of our time, and this book, filled with humor, honesty, and empathy, may be his most impressive work of nonfiction yet. --

Subjects

Topics

Anecdotes371.14/122Public schoolsSchool childrenAuthors, biographySubstitute teachersSubstitute teaching

Other Editions

  • Substitute : going to school with a thousand kidsBlue Rider Press2016-01-01

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