It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

by Tom Rademacher

Book Overview

Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014's Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what he's talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won't Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151790112X
• ISBN13: 9781517901127
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

He is a breath of fresh air. 5 Stars.

If you're a teacher, get this book as soon as you can. It validates many of your own concerns/fears/delusions. Rademacher tells it like it is without being pretentious, elitist, or stuffy. This isn't an education book; this is a book for teachers.