Your students are going to give you two days to convince them that they want to be in your class FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL contains all the activities, strategies and procedures you will need to get you successfully through those first two days and the rest of the first week of school. FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL discusses in detail what you need to do to prepare yourself, your classroom, and your students for the first day of school. As a teacher in elementary or high school these are the things that you need to do to insure a successful year with your students. In FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL you will: Learn how to get the procedures you need in place to make you class run smoothly. Find activities to help your students become more unified and supportive as a group. Discover strategies that you can employ in the first week that will help you to have a classroom with minimal discipline issues, and procedures in place to deal with them without having major confrontations and losing valuable teaching time. The first week in the classroom is not just the first of many potentially difficult weeks with your students; it is the week when you set the tone for the entire year. The activities outlined in FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL will prepare you and your students for the best school year ever."