THROUGH THE TEACHING GLASS Imaginings of a Junior High English Teacher SIGNED HC

by Ted Kloski

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“These stories are fiction even though the average junior high school student is far more bizarre than anything I could ever make up. And the brave and long suffering men and women who teach middle school are too hard working and devoted to be apt subjects for my mythological bent. But I always encouraged my student writers to exaggerate, to make happenings more interesting than they might actually seem at the time. So these stories are some of my mental wanderings over 30 years of teaching 12, 13 and 14 year old kids. The stories try to simultaneously catch the improbable and the earnestly mundane; description of any single student is actually a compilation of characteristics chosen from literally hundreds of students I’ve known over a long teaching career. A friend once gave me the definition of a good teacher. First and foremost, the teacher should have a genuine love of the subject matter. Secondly, the teacher must be supported by the administration, and thirdly, the teacher should have an outgoing personality. I lucked out on all three counts. I actually do love the written word, in all its forms. I get excited over a well written essay, a clever short story, even a sentimental poem if it has a decent metaphor or two. Every administrator I’ve worked for has been supportive. None of them refused any of my strange curriculum requests or quashed my sense of adventure and my policy of, ‘Sure it sounds silly, but let’s give it a whirl’. Outgoing personality? I’m not sure abo

• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation LLC
• Year: 2006
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781425715038
• Condition: Good

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