Brendan Halpin
I am just one of those rare and probably defective people who really enjoy the company of teenagers.,Brendan Halpinâ€™s ,It Takes a Worried Man,â€”a memoir of how he and his family dealt with his wifeâ€™s battle against breast cancerâ€”was praised for its can-dor, raw humor, and riveting voice. Halpin now turns his unique talent to an unforgettable account of the pursuit of his true calling: teaching.,Losing My Faculties, follows Halpin through teaching jobs in an economically depressed white ethnic town, a middle-class suburb, a last-chance truancy prevention program in the inner city, and an ambitious college-prep urban charter school. In the same cuttingly observant voice that marked ,It Takes a Worried Man,, Halpin tells us what it really means to be a teacherâ€”the ups and downs in the classroom, the battles with administrators and colleagues, and the joy of doing a job that matters. Not the tale of a hero who changes his troubled studentsâ€™ lives in one year, ,Losing My Faculties, is, rather, the story of an all-too-fallible teacher who persists in spite of the frustrations that have driven so many others from the profession. After nine years of teaching, Halpin ï¬nds his idealism in shreds but his sense of humor and love for his work blessedly intact.,From the Hardcover edition.
Education,Nonfiction,Teaching,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,Academic,Teachers
Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story