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Designed for both the new and experienced teacher, this fully updated second edition of the best-selling Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide offers a practical source of ready-to-use tips and strategies for solving the everyday problems teachers face while organizing and managing a classroom. Replete with behavior management and assistive discipline strategies, this updated second edition includes tested suggestions, techniques, and reproducibles to help you save time and handle problems in scores of specific areas such as classroom routines, motivation, supplies, parent conferences, lesson plans, grading, conflict resolution, testing, team teaching, cooperative learning, homework, open houses, and many more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #604305 in Books
• Brand: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780787972530
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Teachers will value his insights, his extremely useful resources, and his practical wisdom."
--Thomas R. McDaniel, senior vice president and professor of education, Converse College

"Provides common sense suggestions for classroom management and instructional delivery, and offers a wealth of handout masters to get teachers off to a great start!"
--Jodi A. Lamb, Ph.D. director, staff development, School District of Manatee County

"I use the Survival Guide throughout the year as a reference tool and give it as a practical gift to my student teachers--they love it!"
--Elizabeth Eddy, National Board Certified Teacher, Westerville South High School

From the Back Cover
Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide

Practical Strategies, Management Techniques, and Reproducibles for New and Experienced Teachers, Second Edition

Designed for both the new and experienced teacher, this fully updated second edition of the best-selling Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide offers a practical source of ready-to-use tips and strategies for solving the everyday problems teachers face while organizing and managing a classroom.

Replete with behavior management and assistive discipline strategies, this updated second edition includes tested suggestions, techniques, and reproducibles to help you save time and handle problems in scores of specific areas such as classroom routines, motivation, supplies, parent conferences, lesson plans, grading, conflict resolution, testing, team teaching, cooperative learning, homework, open houses, and many more.

Here is just a sampling of the topics and reproducibles you'll find in each section:

Create a Supportive Learning Environment: The First Day of School . . . Humor in the Classroom . . . Thirty Hot Tips for Managing Classroom Behavior.

Creating Successful Lessons: Lesson Plans . . . Twenty Tips for Closing a Lesson . . . Putting More Pizzazz in Your Presentation . . . Homework That Helps.

Alternatives to Lectures: Twenty-Two Tips for Asking Effective Questions . . . Journal Keeping . . . Field Trips . . . Videotaping.

Building a Learning Community: Twenty-Four Hot Tips for Working with Other Teachers . . . Guidelines for Collaborative Teams.

In Search of Educational Excellence: Twenty-Two Tips for Becoming an Effective Teacher . . . Why Teachers Fail

Effective Use of School Time: The Erosion of School Time . . . Block Scheduling . . . Eleven Tips on Minimizing Classroom Interruptions

Helpful Teaching Resources: The Internet as a Learning Resource . . . Tips on Getting Started on the Internet . . . Computer Software for Improving Teacher Productivity.

"Teachers will value his insights, his extremely useful resources, and his practical wisdom."
—Thomas R. McDaniel, senior vice president and professor of education, Converse College

"Provides common-sense suggestions for classroom management and instructional delivery, and offers a wealth of handout masters to get teachers off to a great start!"
—Jodi A. Lamb, Ph.D., director, staff development, School District of Manatee County

"I use the Survival Guide throughout the year as a reference tool and give it as a practical gift to my student teachers—they love it!"
—Elizabeth Eddy, National Board Certified Teacher, Westerville South High School

About the Author
Ronald L. Partin, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in educational psychology and counseling and has more than thirty-five years' experience as an educator, scholar, counselor, consultant, and presenter. Partin is the author of The Social Studies Teachers' Book of Lists, 2nd Edition from Jossey-Bass.

Customer Reviews

Best practices for all teachers
Easy to read with many bulleted points, this book is helpful to first-year teachers as well as those who have been teaching for longer. I find that every now and then I need to look at something new to re-energize myself for better planning and more effective teaching. This book does that. It offers best practices in behavior management, time management, lesson planning, effective teaching, and assessment. It also contains helpful lists of professional organizations, professional journals, computer software sources, and instructional materials suppliers. While other authors spend so much time focusing on procedures, this author gives you helpful procedural information but focuses on explaining how you can build relationships with students and make learning an active endeavor. He even encourages you to smile while you're doing it.

Second Edition
This guide is a comprehensive and user-friendly reference filled with practical strategies and tips for solving the everyday problems you face while organizing and managing a classroom. It's designed so that you can pick and choose from among the smorgasbord of ideas to find exactly what you need for your unique classroom situation.

This second edition specifically addresses the changes that have occurred in education since the first edition was published: the standards-based, high-stakes testing environment, the role of the Internet in learning, the increase on the time demands of teachers, and the call for greater teacher accountability.

It's great for both beginning and experienced teachers.

A repertoire of great ideas for the new or experienced teach
I would recomend this to any other teacher who can read. I am a new teacher myself and need some help here and there (oh there I go humoring myself again, I need help all the time)and this book sugests how to handel everyday problems and many other necessary things!! I love the part labeled "coping with the Daily Stresses of Teaching" and it also tells information like getting parents involed which can be terribly hard to get going!! It has many good reproducibles that can be used anytime!!! I also just can't get over how well the spiral-bound book is so easy to tote! I again would recomend this to any teacher that can read!!!!!!! To sum it is I feel I don't need to say more than "Great Book"!!