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TEACHER: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching
Gabbie Stroud (ALLEN & UNWIN)
Ricocheting from heart-warming to heart-breaking, Gabbie Stroud's memoir speaks to the soul of every teacher.
Resigning from the profession in 2015, in 'Teacher' Gabbie weaves together the anecdotes of her life that sadly brought her to the point of leaving her career of 17 years. Memories from childhood, her studies through university, teaching experiences in the UK, Canada and New South Wales, together with delightful observations of the 'teacher' moments in her daughters' lives are strung together like the overhead criss-cross display wires from her kindergarten classroom.
This isn't one woman's story. Tragically, this is replicated in classrooms and the lives of teachers across our country.