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Hidden Lessons
- Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching
- Narrated by: Mehreen Baig
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Hilarious and heartwarming and utterly compelling, Hidden Lessons lets you in on the life secrets all teachers know.
You're in at 7 a.m.; there until 7 p.m. and marking into the late hours. You've got one student who's a full-time carer, another who's pregnant and a third who's just joined a gang. You haven't got enough textbooks to go around, and one of the parents just called you an 'extremist'. You've just gone through a devastating heartbreak, and you have to teach Romeo and Juliet to 30 hormonal 14-year-olds.
Welcome to life as a teacher.
This is a world that all of us know, but most of us have completely forgotten. It's a world where you're working 50-hour weeks, but you're still just a part-time teacher, because the rest of the time, you're a security guard, a nurse, a counsellor or a friend. It's also a world where you spend all day with some of the most interesting people you know. And even when the lesson plan has been abandoned, you're still learning.
Mehreen started teaching at 21, and by the time she left 10 years later, she'd learnt a bit about teenagers and a lot about life. This is her story.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-10-21
Absolutely loved it
I found this book to be funny, clever and very insightful! At some points I laughed aloud and some points I felt so sad. It spoke to me a lot as an educator, a woman and as a British person.
Beautifully read and boldly original!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-10-21
uplifting, honest & touching
As a teacher myself, I found this book sooo enjoyable - I did not want it to end! I loved the fact it is conversational and much of what Mehreen writes will resonate with many teachers. A must read if you’re a teacher, parent or trainee.
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- Julia Warszewki
- 21-09-24
Outstanding!
Fantastic book that throws you into the chaotic, exciting and sometimes tragic world of being a teacher in a British state school. It’s so well read by the author, whose passion and personality comes through brilliantly in this account of her classroom mistakes, pastoral victories and mixed parental encounters. If only more people could read an account like this, which builds empathy for all sides — students, teachers, parents. It makes you angry at the fact that teachers aren’t paid better and valued more by our culture, and at the underfunding of the education system. And above all it drives home the need to give young people attention and encouragement in order to create a socially mobile society.
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- Alex
- 05-10-21
Loved it!
It was so funny and yet so real and heartbreaking at times. A must listen for anyone who has stepped foot in a classroom!
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- Joel Horner
- 14-08-22
Required reading!
A terrific book! Hidden lessons comes as close an account as I’ve read to capturing the experience of what it’s like in a real classroom. It contains absurd truths, witty insight and touching anecdotes. If you are in any way close to the teaching profession it should be required reading!
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