What Had Happened
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
If you've ever been a teacher who thought, "why am I doing this?" Or a student who asked, "why does this matter?" Or a parent who wondered why it's so hard to keep really good teachers in the classroom...here's your answer.
-John Lackey (Teacher)
Ryan Neumann's focus and writing style are unique and pioneering in conveying his reflections on teaching. Much literature about teaching centers on the technical aspects of how to work with students. Ryan advances readers’ understanding of what a teacher’s life is like from an affective standpoint. Ryan shows, not tells. But in so doing, he tells us much, and his stories make an indelible impression because of his ability to render reality into story, and story into meaning. I think that What Had Happened is as compelling as just about anything I’ve read about life as a teacher.
-Peter Smagorinsky (Distinguished Research Professor of English Education)
Customer Reviews
Astounding
As a student and a coachee of Ryan Neumann it's an amazing read. To see where he came from and where he is now and how he got there. Where he is now students legitimately look forward to having his class. They view him has one of the best lit teacher they have had along with a friend. Not just a teacher that they have to sit through until lunch or the brief break between classes. But someone that they view as an actual person. And now after reading this book it's amazing how it changed the view I had over my teachers as actual people. Not machines that clock in and out every day to regurgitate the same material 7 times in a row.everybody has a history and with out that history people and Neumann would not be the people a that they are today.