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Is This for a Grade?: A Survival Guide to Teaching - Re-taught and Re-tested
Malmgren, a high school English teacher in San Antonio, Texas, brings to the American public what he has experienced in over 35 years in the public school system. Is This For a Grade? is close to indispensable for parents or for new teachers. It touches on subjects as diverse as teaching "methods", guns and gangs, school politics and more.
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 14, 2014
About the author
Dallin Malmgren
7 books6 followersDallin Malmgren has written over ten novels and several screenplays, while also teaching high school for the past 33 years.
His first novel, The Whole Nine Yards, was published through Dell Publishing and won honorable mention in the Delacorte Press Prize. The Ninth Issue was also published by Dell in 1989. Is This for a Grade? (a collection of essays about teaching) was published by Corona Publishing Company in 1994. He has also published in various magazines, fulfilled many speaking engagements, and served as writer-in-residence for the Highlights for Children Writers’ Retreat in Chautauqua, New York.
Malmgren was born in upstate New York, the third of six children. He grew up in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. His family moved his senior year of high school to St. Louis. He briefly attended the University of Missouri as a business major, then left to spend some years in travel and self-reflection. He married in 1976 and returned to University of Missouri where he received a degree in English with a minor in Education. His family moved to Texas in 1984. He now resides in New Braunfels, Texas. He is the father of three, and a proud grandfather.
Malmgren has spent 33 years teaching in public high schools. He has taught every level of English, Creative Writing, and Photojournalism. He has also coached tennis and volleyball. He plans to retire the summer of 2014, giving him more time to spend on his writing and his golf game.
His first novel, The Whole Nine Yards, was published through Dell Publishing and won honorable mention in the Delacorte Press Prize. The Ninth Issue was also published by Dell in 1989. Is This for a Grade? (a collection of essays about teaching) was published by Corona Publishing Company in 1994. He has also published in various magazines, fulfilled many speaking engagements, and served as writer-in-residence for the Highlights for Children Writers’ Retreat in Chautauqua, New York.
Malmgren was born in upstate New York, the third of six children. He grew up in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. His family moved his senior year of high school to St. Louis. He briefly attended the University of Missouri as a business major, then left to spend some years in travel and self-reflection. He married in 1976 and returned to University of Missouri where he received a degree in English with a minor in Education. His family moved to Texas in 1984. He now resides in New Braunfels, Texas. He is the father of three, and a proud grandfather.
Malmgren has spent 33 years teaching in public high schools. He has taught every level of English, Creative Writing, and Photojournalism. He has also coached tennis and volleyball. He plans to retire the summer of 2014, giving him more time to spend on his writing and his golf game.
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