Product Description

Navigate politics, paperwork, and legal issues

Find your instructional style and make learning fun for your students!

Gain the upper hand on your first day of school! This friendly guide reveals what they didn’t teach you in your education classes, offering practical advice and tons of real-life examples to help you set up and maintain an orderly classroom, engage your students, establish a grading system, and develop positive relationships with parents and school administrators.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #282033 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764524790
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Navigate politics, paperwork, and legal issues

Find your instructional style and make learning fun for your students!

Gain the upper hand on your first day of school! This friendly guide reveals what they didn’t teach you in your education classes, offering practical advice and tons of real-life examples to help you set up and maintain an orderly classroom, engage your students, establish a grading system, and develop positive relationships with parents and school administrators.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
W. Michael Kelley is a former calculus teacher who now works in the Department of Education at the University of Maryland. His Web site, calculus-help.com, has won many awards.

Customer Reviews

Pretty Good Starter
Want to learn how to navigate workplace politics? Understand the jargon of edu-Speak? Know what to cover at a parent-teacher conference? This is one of my favorite "for Dummies" books, as it offers advice that the first-year teacher would *not* be able to find otherwise without an incredibly insightful mentor.

There isn't much about lesson planning, classroom management, or keeping track of grades - three activities that will consume more time and energy than anything else your first year. For that I recommend Harry Wong's "The First Days of School" better.

This book was valuable to me as I started, and I'd happily pass it along to the next rookie.

Anyone considering being a teacher should read this
This book is very good, I've read a fair number of books about education, and the problem is that most of them don't use their own advice, to make learning the subject easy and practical. This book does a great job at it. While I'm sure that every teacher has different experiences, Michael Kelley does a great job of relating his experiences and giving practical advice.

It is not easy being a teacher, but a book like this can make it a little easier.

"Very helpful, but certainly has its limits"
This book contains many helpful insights for new teachers, and I mused at the many suggestions that would have certainly helped me! However, a book as general in nature as this one has its limits. Such a book is certainly no substitute for a good mentor, and is limited since it cannot be grade-specific.

Although I will recommend this work, my expertise is in middle school, and a much better book for new teachers in this area is:

"Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known!" (ISBN: 0595330940).

Since I do not deal with primary or senior high school students, I will let others suggest fine books for these grade levels. My advice? Get this book, use with caution, find a good mentor, and enjoy what you do!