{"product_id":"hapless-teachers-handbook","title":"Hapless Teacher's Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Phil Ball left university with a workmanlike English degree to his name and no discernible ambitions, he wasn't entirely sure what to do next. So like many before him he thought he'd giving teaching a go. Why not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the comic story of one man's painfully slow metamorphosis into a teacher at an everyday comprehensive and his encounters with other remarkable teachers and pupils along the way. The good, the bad, the violent, the victimised and the clinically insane: from his first teaching practice nemesis, Alan Plant, who knows his dark secret, to the pupil who believes he is a reincarnation of the poet Andrew Marvell. It is a tale of the highs and lows of attempting to teach: from the joy of really making a difference to young minds to being physically set upon by a teenage horde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd that's just what happens in the classroom. Beyond it is the real world of teachers behind staff-room doors: desperate lives, unseemly professional competition, a diet of cigarettes, alcohol and cold coffee, casual sex and general social dysfunction. Not a great example, but the truth...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ebury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251394892120,"sku":"9780091908973","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780091908973.jpg?v=1770695130","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hapless-teachers-handbook","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}