Out On Good Behaviour

<p>Tell the administration what they want to hear then do what is best for your students.</p><p>That's advice Barry Garelick tries to follow in the process of becoming a fully credentialed teacher which entails being monitored by two mentors. </p><p>As the Mark Twain of education writing Garelick presents this collection of essays which chronicle his</p><p>experiences at two schools teaching math. </p><p>With essays such as Not Making Sense and a Conversation I Never Had; Math Talk Stalin's Hemorrhoids and Murder of Crows Garelick gives the reader a verité-style glimpse into the daily routines of math teaching and exposes a lot of the nonsense that teachers are advised to follow and which they feel guilty about when they don't.</p>