Publisher: Touchstone
Authors: Phillip Done
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $12.97
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Summary: My thoughts EXACTLY!!!!
This book is the best voice for teachers I've ever heard. It's as if Mr. Done was writing my thoughts. The chapter on speeches and letters he would write to parents were verbatim for me.
This book gives the best insight on how teachers feel and think during the year from beginning to end. I've read the book 3 times in one weekend and I've found something new each time.
The introduction is touching. It describes to a "T" what a teacher is and more. It showed that teaching is more than just passing along knowledge. It is being the nurse, doctor, shrink, comedian etc.
Now when people ask me why I like being a teacher I tell them to read this book. It gives just and brief glimpse at what my job means to me and why I do it.
Thank you Mr. Done for finally putting into words what I have been feeling for the past 8 years.
Oh, by the way, 6 of those 8 years was as a 3rd grade teacher.
Summary: I know Phil Done
During the summers over previous years, Mr. Done organized a musical theater camp which I attended for about six years. He stopped doing it when he went to Budapest. I was so excited to find out that he wrote a book. It is my favorite book of all time, and is what has inspired me to be a teacher. I have read my copy too many times to count. I managed to go to his book signing in Mountain View, his hometown where he used to teach. Now my signed copy is one of my most treasured possessions. Mr. Done, if you ever read this, thanks.
Summary: Easy and thoroughly enjoyable read
I picked up this book while working our school library's Scholastic Book Sale fundraiser. I was looking for something I could pick up and put down in between customers. Unfortunately, I couldn't put the book down. I am not a good reader, usually lean towards books with short chapters and rarely finish any book. I finished this book so quickly I was shocked and sad when the last chapter came to an end.
I am not an educator but I am a parent of a very intellectual 3rd grader. He has a male teacher this year for the first time and I read a few passages from your book. He laughed so hard his mouth hurt. I thanked Mr. Done for giving parents a peek-a-boo view into the lives of our kids and the teachers who spend their days with them.
It was thoroughly entertaining and enlightening.
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