To browse Academia. Teacher Pioneers explores innovative educational practices utilizing gaming in classrooms, emphasizing the stories and experiences of teachers who have successfully integrated games into their teaching. The book is structured into three main sections focused on building games from scratch, using preexisting platforms, and broadening the genre, aiming to guide educators in embracing creativity and experimentation in their teaching methods. Elementary schoolteachers became involved in association football for a variety of reasons, in a range of roles and at various levels.
Involvement in professional clubs, largely unrecorded as it has been, was by no means, of course, their only contribution to the early years of the game. They contributed in a remarkable number of ways. Both collectively and individually, they made an important contribution. The best way to appreciate this is to present for inspection some significant early schoolteacher pioneers.
Teachers played at the highest club levels and with major professional clubs, but some of these club players remained resolutely amateur for practical and principled reasons. One teacher, who throughout his playing career remained an amateur footballer, was Joseph Holmes Gettins. There, Gettins, good at games, was popular and successful -one of twelve 'Poets' who were the leaders of the student community. Gettins spent a year at the school before returning to Borough Road as Assistant Master of Method responsible for pedagogy.
A superb athlete, he fitted in well. As already made clear, athleticism was a strong feature of college life which came to closely resemble life at Almond's Loretto -a pillar of the athleticism edifice. In addition to his teaching accomplishments, Gettins was a highly talented footballer.
His talent was first recognized by Millwall Athletic subsequently Millwall. And it was to be Millwall with which he was most closely connected, and which was his first and lasting love. He played for the club for 12 years making 71 appearances and scoring 69 goals. He was the only Millwall player to appear in their two FA Cup semi-finals of and over and above winning with it two Southern League and two United League Championship medals.
