Hidden Lessons: Growing Up on the Frontline of Teaching

Life as a teacher is challenging, with long hours, diverse students, and limited resources. Mehreen began teaching at 21 and learned about teenagers and life through her experiences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 21 July 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division

You arrive at 7 a.m., and you're there until 7 p.m., marking into the late hours. You have one student who is a full-time carer, another who is pregnant, and a third who has just joined a gang. You don't have enough textbooks to go around, and one of the parents just called you an extremist. You've just gone through a devastating heartbreak, and you have to teach Romeo and Juliet to 30 hormonal 14-year-olds.

Welcome to life as a teacher. This is a world that all of us know, but most of us have completely forgotten. It's a world where you're working 50-hour weeks, but you're still just a part-time teacher because the rest of the time you're a security guard, a nurse, a counselor, or a friend. It's also a world where you spend all day with some of the most interesting people you know. And even when the lesson plan has been abandoned, you're still learning.

Mehreen started teaching at 21, and by the time she left 10 years later, she'd learnt a bit about teenagers and a lot about life. This is her story.

Weight: 192g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529383065