What I Wish I Had Known in 1989

About the Book

This book is a short, reader-friendly account of a veteran teacher’s experiences in teaching students from various backgrounds. The book includes commonsensical, practical advice based on the author’s personal teaching experiences. The author intentionally includes those very real issues that a teacher faces almost daily, issues which typical education classes and textbooks do not address. The book should prove useful to a novice teacher.

About the Author

Joyce F. Hurt holds a Ph.D. in Education (2006) from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and an M.A. (1992) and B.A. (1989) in English from Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. She is currently in her 28th year of teaching high school English and her 20th year as an adjunct English and humanities instructor for Southside Virginia Community College in Keysville, Virginia. Dr. Hurt taught grades 8-11 and coordinated the high school’s gifted program in Prince Edward County Virginia from 1989 to 1997, and she has been employed as a full-time English and humanities instructor at The Governor’s School of Southside Virginia in Keysville, Virginia since 1997. She also teachers part-time at Lunenburg Correctional Center in Victoria, Virginia though Southside Virginia Community College’s “Campus Within Walls” program. Dr. Hurt resides with her husband, Wallace Bennett Hurt, a retired administrator and school board member, in Nottoway County, Virginia.