Life is a Classroom: A Teacher's Journey

By Angela Censoplano Holmes

Life Is a Classroom is an intimate look into the lives of teachers, students, family lives, and understanding that we are all connected. A reminder to all what joy, humor and enlightenment children can bring into our lives. Many students encounter daily perils, including poverty, violence, and homelessness--realities that jeopardize their existence and shape their life experiences, while also shaping the lives of the teachers and adults around them. This book captures their playful purity and joy while offering us a unique viewpoint to observe and cope with our sometimes challenging lives, and to lean on joy and humor whenever possible. Life is a Classroom is a memoir of a teacher, who had a revelation while going through a lot of her own emotional trauma in her personal life which she saw paralleled her students' lives. Watching them go through their trials helped her go through hers. Before feeling detached from students and their lives, this teacher soon realized their similarites and connectedness. We all are one and the same. We all are more alike than we think.Life is a Classroom is an inspiring account that illustrates a teacher's job as being much more than a simple observer of students' lives and their educational process. It's about creating a safe haven within the classroom and learning we're all not so different from anyone else, regardless of what our lives may look like on the outside and how much we can learn from our students.Life is a Classroom shares the excitement of teaching in the 21st century, with the new teaching standards and the overall approach to prepare our students to become life long learners and global citizens. And while there are problems facing our educational system today, teachers alone can't solve them. Working together as a team--parents, extended families, teachers, school boards--we can make a difference.Looking through the lense of elementary students, this book confronts issues surrounding immigration, undocumented students, poverty, child abuse, cancer, mental illness and witnessing the grace and human spirit needed to move pass the adversity into the light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973398478
• ISBN13: 9781973398479
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"