Memoirs of a Happy Teacher (ePub)

After a life-time in teaching, Roy’s book reveals the general misunderstanding behind why children really fail in school today and how to help them to learn better. Said by some to be the bible for hard working educators from nursery to university and parents striving to help all children get better grades and a happier childhood.to help  hard working teachers from nursery to university as well as concerned parents to share his experiences in teaching and developing children of all ages. Said by some to be The bible for educators, it reveals the general misunderstanding behind why children really fail in school today and how to help them to learn better.

Presented more as a fun and easy-to-read novel than the actual academic book it really is, Memoirs of a Happy Teacher strikes at the core of all the problems in school today. Many of these problems underlie those that are  later manifested in our society.  As Roy Andersen recounts his experiences creating a sound platform for an 18- month-old to learn, to helping bullied children overcome their problems in learning, to explaining to a dyslexic student of 17 why he never was truly dyslexic, Roy exposes the general misunderstandings behind why children really fail in school today.

As the reader is carried through personal interviews, village hall meetings, evening school talks, and battle-zone classrooms, they encounter the worries, questions, and problems faced by teachers, children, and their parents--all struggling to overcome an educational service that never seems to get it right.

This book is for teachers of all levels from nursery to university and for any parent who is really interested in the struggles and dangers awaiting their child in school as it unveils a new and yet highly tested teaching methodology purposely designed for the 21st Century Child. After all, stars, marks, grades, and final examinations are simply a question of the child keeping up with each lesson. However, what we too often fail to understand is that the stresses we incur and unwittingly pass on to our child, when we argue or are too tired and too bored with life, not only disturbs their mind, but also their grades in school. For the mind of the student today is too seldom a happy one, as it struggles to survive in a world that is far more toxic than that which we lived in when we were children, and so can too little understand or know how to deal with. This is a book that shows you how. 

What the professionals say:

Dr. Gwendolyn Lavert. Educational Consultant. U.S.A:

“Memoirs of a Happy Teacher is written by a teacher who teaches from the heart. Every school should put this book in the hands of all school staff. School leaders should provide opportunities for weekly dialogue. These conversations can build teacher and student capacity toward teaching and learning.”

Principal. Dr. Sadaf  Iqbal. Aurakzai Model School. Pakistan:

“I ask my teachers to read a chapter and then we all discuss together what we can learn from this and how we can teach our children better by the examples it gives. This is the most important book for school today. It should be the bible for every teacher!”

Educational Consultant and previous principal Ian Arkell. CEO SchoolPro TLC. UK :

This book appears to me to be very relevant to those currently teaching and particularly those who are just starting their career. Whilst presented as stories, they contextualize the learning process and provide clear and well developed scenarios and ideas of problems faced by learners, reasons for them and importantly how teachers can start to address the different challenges they and their learners face in the mainstream classroom. In short, I think the book would make a great addition to any initial teacher training reading list.”