EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW
BUT DIDN'T LEARN IN YOUR EDUCATION COURSES!

Part handbook, part memoir, this guide provides practical tips to help first year teachers gain confidence and achieve success. Ralph Maltese is a teacher'steacher,* and he "tells it like it is." A Class Act is truly teaching for smarties: dummies need not apply! Among the topics covered:
• Marketing yourself
• Research and Reality
• Making the bureaucracy work for you
• Teacher Triage
• Addressing discipline problems: The Class from Hell
• The Class, the Whole Class, and nothing but the Class

*Classroom teacher for 36 years; technology coach; Fulbright Teacher/Scholar; Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year; State Consultant-Classrooms for the Future;Adjunct Professor for Integrating Technology in the Classroom