Veteran teacher Katrina Ayres showcases her disastrous first year of teaching in rural Hawaii on the island of Molokai. Somehow, her teacher training hadn't prepared her for The Monster Copier, Matthew the Plane-Hurler, The Student Who Finishes Everything Early, and eighty hour workweeks. At the end of each chapter, Katrina explains where her New Teacher Self went wrong and offers time-saving, practical hints and tricks they don't teach you in teacher college.