What It Takes To Be A Teacher

Have you ever had to start your life over again? You know, really start it over. If all of a sudden your job – and the market it was based on – crashes, what would you do? You couldn’t just go out and get another job, since none exist in terms of what you are qualified or trained to do. You would really have to start over, from scratch. This is exactly what happened to author John Pearson in 2001. Having graduated with an engineering degree and gotten a good job straight out of college, John moved his way up the corporate ladder for almost four years. Then, in 2001 the market crashed and John was laid off from work. Just like that. Rather then resorting to a self-destructive behavioral pattern – often the story of a memoir or account of personal transformation – he decided to put his life into service. He became a teacher.

Learn Me Goodis the remarkable story of John’s first year as a 3rd grade math teacher. However, unlike many books that recount an individuals personal struggles and realizations in the past tense, Learn Me Goodis literally captured in the present. By saving his almost daily emails to a friend who happened to work at the very same company that John was laid off from, the book gives the reader an intimate, refreshing, and in-the-moment account of just what it is like to be a teacher.

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