Summary
In his 2006 book, Daddy Needs a Drink, Rob Wilder chronicled family life with the eye of a slightly bewildered but efficient ringmaster and the cheerful but merciless precision of a surgeon. He has now repeated the feat with essays on another subject close to his heart: teaching.
Tales From the Teacher's Lounge (Delacorte Press, 2007) brings together anecdotes, musings, philosophical reflections, and facts that Wilder has drawn from his student days as well as nearly two decades of teaching. Wilder has worked in such varying locales as an unidentified "local hippie school" and Santa Fe Preparatory School. His experiences include being given a present by an emotionally complicated child (part of her bowel movement) and helping handle Prep's annual descent into sanctioned wackiness: Halloween.See the full content of this document
Extract
Playing to the Toughest Audience in Town
The book's subtitle is What I Learned in School the Second Time Around -- One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today. A reading and book signing take place at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, at the Cowgirl Bar & Grill.
Pasatiempo: When did you get the idea for Tales From the Teacher's Lounge?Rob Wilder: When I was working on the first book, I already had thought about what the next book would be. I always felt -- there's a lot of time in teaching, you think you're on Candid Camera. You can't believe it's happe...See the full content of this document
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