Teacher

A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging.

Gabbie Stroud was a dedicated teacher with over a decade of experience. But she resigned in frustration and despair because NAPLAN standardised testing and My School were preventing her from doing the very thing she was best at: teaching individual children according to their needs and talents.

This powerful memoir explores what it means to be a teacher: what makes a great teacher, and what our children need from their teachers. It tells the story of Gabbie’s clear gift for teaching and what it was that finally broke her.

Already being hailed as a work of national importance by educators, Teacher is a brilliant and heart-breaking memoir that cuts through the platitudes and statistics to show that our current education system is failing our children and destroying their teachers.

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Praise for Teacher

“An achingly heartfelt personal reflection on the way bureaucracy dehumanises and compromises our teachers and our children… how the joy of teaching can be turned into despair, and how children are becoming less important than outcomes. Heartbreaking.”

–Noni Hazelhurst AM, actress, writer, director, broadcaster
About Gabbie Stroud

About Gabbie Stroud

Hello! I’m Gabbie Stroud, recovering teacher now turned writer. My non-fiction books and essays Teacher, Dear Parents and Teaching Australia explore “teacher life” in Australian schools. I also write fiction! The Things That Matter Most is a story about the heartbreaking secrets of one student and his teachers in a regional school. Have the tissues ready! Also… The Things That Matter Most is currently being adapted for the screen. Woot! Woot! Now, I’m writing domestic noir with a chic-lit twist. The Angry Wives Club is my first book for disgruntled women and it certainly won’t be my last.

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Publications by Gabbie

My non-fiction books and essays Teacher, Dear Parents and Teaching Australia explore “teacher life” in Australian schools. I also write fiction! The Things That Matter Most is a story about the heartbreaking secrets of one student and his teachers in a regional school. Have the tissues ready! Also… The Things That Matter Most is currently being adapted for the screen. Woot! Woot! Now, I’m writing domestic noir with a chic-lit twist. The Angry Wives Club is my first book for disgruntled women and it certainly won’t be my last.

 

The Angry Wives Club
The Things that Matter Most
Dear Parents
Teacher
Measuring Up