If School Desks Could Speak
by Miroslava Christesen
If School Desks Could Speak is a collection of true, humorous, and heartening vignettes from the classrooms of middle- and high-school students on both sides of the Atlantic. From being addressed as `babe' to finding a father's personal item glowing in the dark; from dodging flying spitballs to flying business class; from confiscating student amorous messages to helping a teenage mother cope with an unplanned pregnancy - these are only a few examples of life in the trenches. You will be drawn into this honest testimony to the real world of a classroom teacher.
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Author Biography
Miroslava Christesen is a master teacher and award-winning educator with an international teaching career. She graduated from Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) with a PhD equivalency in English and Russian. Her first job was a reporter in the English section of Radio Prague. After marrying an American opera singer, she taught English at the high school and college level in Germany. She moved to the USA in 1985 and continued to teach English and worked as academically gifted resource teacher at several middle and high schools in the Raleigh area. For her work with students and for her contributions to Wake County curriculum development, she has received numerous recognitions including Wake County and North Carolina Academically Gifted Teacher of the Year, Wake Forest Rotary Humanitarian of the Year, and NC Middle School Character Educator of the Year. In 2016 the governor of North Carolina awarded her the prestigious Order of the Long Leaf Pine award. In this book, her second published work, she shares personal observations and experiences from her over thirty years of classroom teaching on both hemispheres.
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