Substitute : going to school with a thousand kids

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Label

Substitute : going to school with a thousand kids

Title remainder

going to school with a thousand kids

Statement of responsibility

Nicholson Baker

Creator

• Baker, Nicholson

Author

• Baker, Nicholson

Subject

• Autobiographies
• Autobiographies
• Baker, Nicholson
• Baker, Nicholson
• EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
• EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
• Education -- United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• 20160930 New List current
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
• Substitute teachers
• Substitute teachers -- Anecdotes
• Teachers -- United States
• Teaching
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• Anecdotes

Genre

• Autobiographies
• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

371.14/122

Index

index present

LC call number

LB2844.1.S8

LC item number

B28 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography