I bought a copy of this book primarily for one reason. I couldn’t resist the price for the KINDLE edition for this book, FREE.
While I’ve never been a teacher, nor a parent of a child; like ALL OF US, I’ve been a student.
As students we never got to know what’s going on inside the minds of any of the teachers we’ve ever had from Kindergarten right through our senior year in high school. All we knew had been that the person in front of the classroom was there to teach what we needed to learn. And from the ninth grade on, for me it had been to pass the all-important year end test for the subjects I’ve taken a class in; which in New York State that was the State Regents Exams.
And for some reason, as students, we never could understand why we liked some teachers more than others, we just did. All we knew it basically had been the way our teachers interacted with us; some showing us an interest in what we might to ask at the end of a class, while others told us to get to our next class so we wouldn’t be late - - in other words the old brush-off.
In his book, John Fioravanti, has gone to where almost all teachers would never dare to thread, which is letting us into his psyche for his reasons for being a teacher and his development in becoming a better teacher. This book also proves that the line in the song “Getting to Know You” from the “The Kind and I” has some truth to back it up. For those who don’t know the line, it is: “If you become a teacher by your students you’ll be taught.”
The author’s life experiences is what this book is about, and in writing it, he has lifted the veil to the reason why teachers are the way they are, which is why I’m happy to give this book 5 STARS.
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K9UXW2E
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00K9UXW2E
If you’ve liked reading this review, if possible I’d appreciate it if you could go to Amazon and say YES at the end of my review there. THANKS
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