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Diary of an Inner City Teacher is a probe into the reality of teaching in our inner city school systems as seen from the front line. Over two decades in the trenches, educator Tamam Tracy Moncur exposes through her personal journal the plights, the highlights, the sadness, and the joys she has experienced as a teacher in the Newark, NJ public school system.
Tamam Tracy Moncur was born in Oakland, California. She was a civil rights activist in San Francisco prior to relocating to the East Coast. She met her husband, renowned jazz musician Grachan Moncur III in New York City. They were burned out of their apartment in Harlem, and eventually her husband’s grandmother was able to secure an apartment for them in Newark, New Jersey, in one of the high rise projects that existed at that time.
She attended Essex County College and Rutgers University in Newark and received her Bachelor of Arts in Education and two teaching certifications one in music education, and the other in elementary education. She retired from teaching in 2010. She graduated in 2014 from the International Institute for Restorative Practices receiving her Masters of Science in Restorative Practices.
She invites you to walk with her on her personal journey as an educator so that you can perceive the classroom experience from a different perspective and become an advocate for change in the development of innovative schools for the future.
Reviewed by Jessyca Garcia for Readers' Favorite
Diary of an Inner City Teacher by Tamam Tracy Moncur is an eye opening book about what actually goes on in a sixth grade classroom throughout the year. It is also a book that gives ideas on how to teach your own children. Teachers do not get the respect that they clearly deserve; hopefully this book will change that.
Diary of an Inner City Teacher is written in a form similar to a diary. Moncur tells the reader what happens in her classroom each day throughout the school year. Moncur also shares her feelings after losing a former student to violence, gives examples on how she helps her students to learn, and what it is like dealing with the parents. I loved that Moncur named her characters as pseudonyms that reflected their behavior rather than actual names. This showed me how teachers view their students as well as how students behave in class. I also really liked Moncur’s idea of the children writing rhymes with the times tables in order to learn them. I plan on using this idea to teach my daughter math.
I enjoyed reading Diary of an Inner City Teacher. Moncur sheds light on what teachers actually deal with in her book. Teachers definitely do not have an easy job. It is nice to see how some things have changed, yet a lot of things are still the same from when I was in sixth grade. I recommend this book to anyone who is a teacher, becoming a teacher, or needs new ideas on how to communicate with children.
