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Is This for a Grade?: A Survival Guide for Teaching in the '90s
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." --George Bernard Shaw (coincidentally, a high school dropout)
"With all do respect for Mr. Shaw and his brillance, I have complete disdain for his attitude. No task is more vital to the survival of society than the education of its young people who attempt to do it. An effective teacher must be an expert at planning, organization, improvisation, communication, and evaluation. He or she must also be able to play politics, manipulate recalcitrants, stretch a dollar, and invent a thirty-hour day. Put a truly great teacher into another field of endeavor, and she will zoom straight to the top. But, thank heavens, most of them prefer to teach." --Dallin Malmgren
Originally titled Is This For a Grade? A Survival Guide for Teaching in the 90′s is still and humorous and insightful look at the public school system as it was when it was released in 1994. It is considered 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.
Malmgren is currently creating an updating version for teachers and parents, dealing with technology, testing, charter schools, and much much more. Be sure to contact him with any input or questions you'd like him to address. The updated version will be released by Christmas 2013.
"With all do respect for Mr. Shaw and his brillance, I have complete disdain for his attitude. No task is more vital to the survival of society than the education of its young people who attempt to do it. An effective teacher must be an expert at planning, organization, improvisation, communication, and evaluation. He or she must also be able to play politics, manipulate recalcitrants, stretch a dollar, and invent a thirty-hour day. Put a truly great teacher into another field of endeavor, and she will zoom straight to the top. But, thank heavens, most of them prefer to teach." --Dallin Malmgren
Originally titled Is This For a Grade? A Survival Guide for Teaching in the 90′s is still and humorous and insightful look at the public school system as it was when it was released in 1994. It is considered 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.
Malmgren is currently creating an updating version for teachers and parents, dealing with technology, testing, charter schools, and much much more. Be sure to contact him with any input or questions you'd like him to address. The updated version will be released by Christmas 2013.
156 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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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