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Teaching and the Art of Successful Classroom Management: A How-To-Guidebook for Teachers in Secondary Schools

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This book gives practical advices to those beginning teachers who do not know how to start. Guidelines for the opening lesson, grading policy, classroom procedures, homework collection, lesson plans are given. Basic lesson types are explained. Gives a good jump start.

A candid and extremely helpful teaching guide especially for the beginning secondary school teacher. Content is well organized with clear explanation and suggestions of lesson components necessary for effective instruction. Emphasis is placed on preventive discipline, classroom management, lesson planning/lesson implementation, testing techniques, teaching across-the-curriculum and different lesson type models. There are also very useful teacher forms. A teacher's must have book!

This very thin book has virtually nothing you didn't get in your credential classes or could figure out on your own. There is nothing whatever about "classroom management" as it is usually defined - keeping the idiots from taking over the class.

Have a lesson plan, a seating chart, a few other items. Even there it is it inadequate for today's class room. For example: he says let the students sit where they want on the first day! Disaster - as I found out the hard way. They will all sit with their friends and start chatting right away. Instead you assign seats and put each name on the chart on "post-its" so you can move them around frequently - weekly for the first month or so - as you figure out who needs to be up front, who can't be together, etc.

Here's a tip. They hate detention. Even five minutes at lunch time helps turn a creep into a nice kid. Another tip - YOU dismiss the class, not the bell. There is no reason for them to be standing by the door five minutes before the bell rings waiting to exit. Last tip - foul language is immediate suspension from class for a day and a call home. Miss a test because you were suspended - too bad.

This book has the best of intentions, but is very off the mark as to today's classroom.

The book has a feel of 1965. Or maybe some special suburban school district. If you are teaching in an urban district, this book will lead you down the prim-rose path!

This item was exactly as described in the item description. It was in the original packaging and is in excellent condition. I am very satisfied and I highly recommend this seller and product to everyone.