Do you think that such a teacher does exist?
Imagine a teacher has these qualities:
- always helping students, colleagus and everyone at school
- being endlessly kind and generous
- asking parents to call her if there is a problem
- giving better grades than any other teacher
- passing her holidays with the students of her school
- never thinking about her own interests
- organizing the car share for the teachers
- never blaming anyone except herself
- taking over the jobs other teachers don't like
- being highly qualified as a teacher and as an expert in her subjects
- correction tests and papers for the day after they were written
- accepting all kinds of stress and burden the teacher's job brings
- being friendly to all people who are never friendly to her
- ignoring the signs of her body that want to tell her that this is too much.
And if she or he really exists, what do you think will happen to that teacher?
You can read it in one of my stories. It's called "Death".
Henry Arnold, author of 'School Stories'
Samstag, 11. Februar 2012
Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2012
What kinds of teachers do you find at school?
There is one type still, again and again, at almost every school: the classical teacher. This teacher is always right, no matter what's it about. This teacher will give grades every minute, at school, at home, in the free time, everywhere. She will never be able to take off the teacher's uniform. He will never be able to stop judging people, events, things.
The special way of thinking is a tragedy to the person, as well as to everyone around. No one will rest outside extreme educational viewing. No one will have a chance to act free, according to your own ideas and wishes. No one will find something positive in her or his special and indivudual attitude towards life and society, because you cannot get rid of the fixed impression that you will get a bad grade the next moment, whatever you do, no matter how you mean it.
In one of my stories I try to depict such an extraordinary character, a woman teacher who is teaching and teaching and teaching - Mrs. Teaching is her real name. It is strong satire, but already sarcastic - in the story something happens that people would avoid in real life, as they are too polite, normally. How would you handle such a strange character?
Henry Arnold, author of School Stories
There is one type still, again and again, at almost every school: the classical teacher. This teacher is always right, no matter what's it about. This teacher will give grades every minute, at school, at home, in the free time, everywhere. She will never be able to take off the teacher's uniform. He will never be able to stop judging people, events, things.
The special way of thinking is a tragedy to the person, as well as to everyone around. No one will rest outside extreme educational viewing. No one will have a chance to act free, according to your own ideas and wishes. No one will find something positive in her or his special and indivudual attitude towards life and society, because you cannot get rid of the fixed impression that you will get a bad grade the next moment, whatever you do, no matter how you mean it.
In one of my stories I try to depict such an extraordinary character, a woman teacher who is teaching and teaching and teaching - Mrs. Teaching is her real name. It is strong satire, but already sarcastic - in the story something happens that people would avoid in real life, as they are too polite, normally. How would you handle such a strange character?
Henry Arnold, author of School Stories
Sonntag, 5. Februar 2012
What will happen to a teacher who wants to make school fun and democracy?
One of the stories in my book describes the attitudes and behaviour of a teacher that considers students as full members of human society. He asks them for their opinion before making decisions, he makes them fit to hold lessons themselves and he refuses the process of social exclusion that is produced by the grading system.
He can be sure of the hatred of the director, some wretched teachers and the parents of the local elite. He is fighting for a better school, but there are lots of obstacles in that sweet little net of corruption, tricking and power at the core of the school. So he goes straight ahead on his path to a better future, but will he succeed? Will he find a basis for his ideas? Will he win fighters who help him, other teachers? Will the students have the power to support him? Will he lose his job?
You can find the answer in my smart book of school stories!
Henry Arnold, author of the book "School Stories"
One of the stories in my book describes the attitudes and behaviour of a teacher that considers students as full members of human society. He asks them for their opinion before making decisions, he makes them fit to hold lessons themselves and he refuses the process of social exclusion that is produced by the grading system.
He can be sure of the hatred of the director, some wretched teachers and the parents of the local elite. He is fighting for a better school, but there are lots of obstacles in that sweet little net of corruption, tricking and power at the core of the school. So he goes straight ahead on his path to a better future, but will he succeed? Will he find a basis for his ideas? Will he win fighters who help him, other teachers? Will the students have the power to support him? Will he lose his job?
You can find the answer in my smart book of school stories!
Henry Arnold, author of the book "School Stories"
What will you find in my school stories?
The first story is about a young man of about 18 who prepares obviously a cruel attack at his school.
It is his final conclusion from all the disappointing events and the multiple deceptions conventional teachers broke down on him.
He is absolutely determined to act the next morning. His best friend tries to make him change his mind, but in vain. Only to relax a bit and possibly to enjoy the last evening of his life, he visits a bar. There he meets a very nice girl, and he gets somewhat irritated as she is a true attraction to him.
The next morning, he doesn't come to school, neither does she. What do you think, where are they?
What are they doing? What has happened last night?
To find it out, buy my new book with 12 school stories: Henry Arnold, School Stories, a Kindle book at
Amazon.
The first story is about a young man of about 18 who prepares obviously a cruel attack at his school.
It is his final conclusion from all the disappointing events and the multiple deceptions conventional teachers broke down on him.
He is absolutely determined to act the next morning. His best friend tries to make him change his mind, but in vain. Only to relax a bit and possibly to enjoy the last evening of his life, he visits a bar. There he meets a very nice girl, and he gets somewhat irritated as she is a true attraction to him.
The next morning, he doesn't come to school, neither does she. What do you think, where are they?
What are they doing? What has happened last night?
To find it out, buy my new book with 12 school stories: Henry Arnold, School Stories, a Kindle book at
Amazon.
Samstag, 4. Februar 2012
Who can write school stories?
Almost everyone, you could say - as we all have gone to school for years, and we all have things in our memory that concern our school years.
Let's stick a bit more to the question. A teacher who thinks about his action, his job, the problems of the daily procedures at school can be an author of a school story.
A student who is not happy about his life at school can be a very good author of such a story, because she or he is actually an object and a subject of school life.
Parents of school kids are potential authors of school stories, as they put a lot of effort and time into this sphere, they torture their minds with conflicts and burning difficulties their children may experience at school - with teachers, students, the director, their classmate in love.....
Lots of possible authors - are you one of them?
Almost everyone, you could say - as we all have gone to school for years, and we all have things in our memory that concern our school years.
Let's stick a bit more to the question. A teacher who thinks about his action, his job, the problems of the daily procedures at school can be an author of a school story.
A student who is not happy about his life at school can be a very good author of such a story, because she or he is actually an object and a subject of school life.
Parents of school kids are potential authors of school stories, as they put a lot of effort and time into this sphere, they torture their minds with conflicts and burning difficulties their children may experience at school - with teachers, students, the director, their classmate in love.....
Lots of possible authors - are you one of them?
Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2012
School Stories: Imagine a remarkable scene with the best (the worst) teacher at your school. Describe the action, the consequences, the problems (the advantages) arising from it, and try to write about a solution
(a happy feeling) that makes things as good as possible for you (or the hero of your story); if necessary, keep satisfied with a negative ending.
Think about similar moments and events at your school with the same teacher and build some kind of chain in which a development (better und better/worse and worse) is seen, so that finally there is a very positive/very negavite result.
Try to include some aspects of the school as a system, patterns of the management etc.; this will depict school as a kind of pattern that can produce/prevent good or bad impacts on your hero/heroine in the story. Use your fantasy - you write fiction, it is not useful to offend living people. Doing so, you might get harsh problems. Fiction means, it is a story that can have a basic in your own experience, but you should avoid setting people on the stage that you know in real life!
Whatever you have written -ask a friend to read it and talk about it. Make a new version, if you like.
Change parts of it, if you like. Write a new story, if you like.
Henry Arnold
(a happy feeling) that makes things as good as possible for you (or the hero of your story); if necessary, keep satisfied with a negative ending.
Think about similar moments and events at your school with the same teacher and build some kind of chain in which a development (better und better/worse and worse) is seen, so that finally there is a very positive/very negavite result.
Try to include some aspects of the school as a system, patterns of the management etc.; this will depict school as a kind of pattern that can produce/prevent good or bad impacts on your hero/heroine in the story. Use your fantasy - you write fiction, it is not useful to offend living people. Doing so, you might get harsh problems. Fiction means, it is a story that can have a basic in your own experience, but you should avoid setting people on the stage that you know in real life!
Whatever you have written -ask a friend to read it and talk about it. Make a new version, if you like.
Change parts of it, if you like. Write a new story, if you like.
Henry Arnold
Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2012
School Stories
School life is full of stories - that means life is school and school is life, for many people, and for lots of years in our lives.
School can be boring, loud, fast, slow, exciting, funny, bad, inhuman and even killing.
That's what I am writing about, exciting stories, funny stories, ironic stories, sarcastic stories, stories about false directors, ignorant teachers, scapegoat-hunters, nice colleagues and trickers and pretenders, as well as about super coaches and cute ladies who can stop someone before he starts a cruel attack.
I've published a collection of school stories at Amazon, and I'd like to discuss about this topic with everyone who has to do with school - students, teachers, administrators, politicians, scientists, parents, caretakers.
Too many people talk nonsense about school, and too many are helpless. Let's make a new start with school and life and see what we can make of it, thinking about our common future!
Read one of my stories, and you will know what I'd like to chat about: Henry Arnold, School Stories.
And tell me ideas about your school life, your school stories, maybe I can help you to write them.
School can be boring, loud, fast, slow, exciting, funny, bad, inhuman and even killing.
That's what I am writing about, exciting stories, funny stories, ironic stories, sarcastic stories, stories about false directors, ignorant teachers, scapegoat-hunters, nice colleagues and trickers and pretenders, as well as about super coaches and cute ladies who can stop someone before he starts a cruel attack.
I've published a collection of school stories at Amazon, and I'd like to discuss about this topic with everyone who has to do with school - students, teachers, administrators, politicians, scientists, parents, caretakers.
Too many people talk nonsense about school, and too many are helpless. Let's make a new start with school and life and see what we can make of it, thinking about our common future!
Read one of my stories, and you will know what I'd like to chat about: Henry Arnold, School Stories.
And tell me ideas about your school life, your school stories, maybe I can help you to write them.
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