Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens? - Garon, Ilana
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This irresistible, passionate, hilariously funny look at a young teacher and her surprisingly lovable students lights up the landscape of recent writing about American education.” Susan Cheever According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the hero teacher”the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner-city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness. The students are then saved” by the teacher’s idealism, empathy, and faith. This is not that type of…mehr

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This irresistible, passionate, hilariously funny look at a young teacher and her surprisingly lovable students lights up the landscape of recent writing about American education.” Susan Cheever According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the hero teacher”the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner-city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness. The students are then saved” by the teacher’s idealism, empathy, and faith. This is not that type of book. Here, Garon reveals the sometimes humorous, often frustrating, and occasionally horrifying truths that accompany the experience of teaching at a public high school in the Bronx. The overcrowded classrooms, lack of textbooks, and abundance of mice, cockroaches, and drugs weren’t the only challenges Garon faced during her first four years as a teacher. Every day, she’d interact with students dealing with addiction, miscarriages, stints in juvie,” abusive relationships, and gang violence. These students brought with them big dreams and uncommon insightand challenged everything Garon thought she knew about education. In response, Garona naive, suburban girl with a curly ponytail, freckles, and Harry Potter glassesopened her eyes, rolled up her sleeves, and learned to distinguish between mitigated failure and qualified success. In this book, Garon explains how she realized that being a new teacher was about trial by fire, making mistakes, learning from the very students she was teaching, and occasionally admitting that she may not have answers to their thought-provoking (and amusing) questions.
Autorenporträt
Ilana Garon is an English teacher at a public high school in the Bronx, New York, and holds master’s degrees in both secondary English education and fine arts. Throughout the past ten years, she has taught every level of high school English, from ESL to AP, and even math in emergency situations. She also writes about education issues for Dissent Magazine, Huffington Post, and Education Week. Garon lives in New York City.