Introduction 1Part 1: What They Didn't Teach You in College 7Chapter 1: What Have You Gotten Yourself Into? 9Chapter 2: Dealing with Society's Nutty Notions about Teaching 27Chapter 3: How Things Have Changed in the Classroom 39Part 2: Managing Your Classroom 53Chapter 4: Finding Your Way Around 55Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Classroom 71Chapter 6: The First Week of School 89Chapter 7: Keeping Your Classroom Under Control 105Chapter 8: Picking Your Battles 123Part 3: Delivering Instruction 141Chapter 9: Finding Your Style 143Chapter 10: Making Learning Fun 159Chapter 11: Managing Assessment 177Part 4: Meet the Supporting Cast 191Chapter 12: Getting to Know Your Administrators 193Chapter 13: Getting to Know Your Coworkers 211Chapter 14: Getting to Know Parents 227Chapter 15: Getting to Know Students 247Part 5: Non-Instructional Duties 261Chapter 16: Implicit and Explicit Duties 263Chapter 17: Taming Administrative Tasks 279Chapter 18: Protecting Students Under Your Care 291Part 6: The Part of Tens 311Chapter 19: Ten Things That Always Happen to First-Year Teachers 313Chapter 20: The Ten Biggest First-Year Teacher Blunders 319Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Teaching Online 325Index 331
Carol Flaherty is a 25-year veteran elementary school teacher who spent most of her years teaching first and fourth grades.Flirtisha Harris has taught secondary school for more than 20 years in Texas and Southern Maryland.W. Michael Kelley started as a high school math teacher and has spent 30 years teaching and training people of all ages.