A field guide · by J. Kerry
From the Tools
From the Tools
to Teaching
Twenty years on the tools, then someone put me in a classroom. Nobody hands you a manual for that. So I wrote one.
Twenty years on the tools, then someone put me in a classroom. Nobody hands you a manual for that. So I wrote one.
You can strip a boiler blind and still get floored by a lesson plan.
This is a book about the jump from doing the job to teaching it — the paperwork, the standing in front of a room, the stuff the trade never prepared you for. It's not theory for the sake of theory. It's what actually works, from someone who's stood exactly where you're standing.
Written plain. No jargon, no buzzwords, no pretending it's easy. Just the honest version.
J. Kerry spent years as a gas engineer before moving into further education and apprenticeship assessment. He writes the way he'd talk to you on a job — straight, dry, and without the fluff.
From the Tools to Teaching is his no-nonsense guide for anyone making the same jump: from the van to the classroom, from doing the work to explaining it.