Hidden Lessons: Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching Baig Mehreen
Hidden Lessons: Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching Baig Mehreen You're in at 7am, there until 7pm and marking into the late hours. You haven't got enough textbooks to go around, and one of the…
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Hidden Lessons: Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching Baig Mehreen
You're in at 7am, there until 7pm and marking into the late hours. You haven't got enough textbooks to go around, and one of the parents just called you an 'extremist'. You've got one student who's a full time carer, another who's pregnant, and a third who's just joined a gang.
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. 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 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,
Teaching of the Catholic Church