First Year Teaching For Dummies

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.

Introduction 1 Part 1: What They Didn't Teach You in College 7 Chapter 1: What Have You Gotten Yourself Into? 9 Chapter 2: Dealing with Society's Nutty Notions about Teaching 27 Chapter 3: How Things Have Changed in the Classroom 39 Part 2: Managing Your Classroom 53 Chapter 4: Finding Your Way Around 55 Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Classroom 71 Chapter 6: The First Week of School 89 Chapter 7: Keeping Your Classroom Under Control 105 Chapter 8: Picking Your Battles 123 Part 3: Delivering Instruction 141 Chapter 9: Finding Your Style 143 Chapter 10: Making Learning Fun 159 Chapter 11: Managing Assessment 177 Part 4: Meet the Supporting Cast 191 Chapter 12: Getting to Know Your Administrators 193 Chapter 13: Getting to Know Your Coworkers 211 Chapter 14: Getting to Know Parents 227 Chapter 15: Getting to Know Students 247 Part 5: Non-Instructional Duties 261 Chapter 16: Implicit and Explicit Duties 263 Chapter 17: Taming Administrative Tasks 279 Chapter 18: Protecting Students Under Your Care 291 Part 6: The Part of Tens 311 Chapter 19: Ten Things That Always Happen to First-Year Teachers 313 Chapter 20: The Ten Biggest First-Year Teacher Blunders 319 Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Teaching Online 325 Index 331