Corwin Press The Lighter Side of Teaching

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A sense of humor is essential for effective teaching! As educators, we often take ourselves a bit too seriously, so veteran educator and illustrator Aaron Bacall offers a little perspective with these lighthearted cartoons. Whether used as overheads for staff development meetings or as an individual break in a busy day, this collection of whimsical glimpses at teaching will provide a moment to laugh and add a little levityand poignancyto your workday.

Intended to amuse, inspire, and reveal the simple truths that surround us, these illustrations are ideal for:

• Staff training days
• Conference presentations
• Classroom lectures
• Community meetings
• Internal communications

and they will continue reminding us that we can laugh at almost anything!

Aaron Bacalls works have appeared in many publications: The School Administrator, Technology & Learning, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, and Readers Digest. He has worked as a teacher, a principal curriculum writer for the New York City Board of Education, an antibiotic research chemist, and now as a full-time cartoonist.

He is a member of The National Cartoonist Society and is on the Board of Governors of the Cartoonists Association.