The New High School Teacher's Survival Guide: a Modern Guide to Successful Teaching

The first year of teaching is the hardest. A new teacher needs good tools and good advice to get through it and keep her wits. This book provides both, along with the lesson plans, classroom management, and a heads up about educational fads and school politics. This book is based on experience and will tell you what you need to know to keep from drowning and please all those first year observers. You'll learn what substitutes want and how to include specific reading skills in your lesson plans without compromising the subject matter you're teaching. This book provides all you need to ensure success for both you and your students. Between the pages you'll discover how to quickly build lesson plans and control those unruly students who can turn teaching into a chore. Finally first time teachers can get through that first year with their sanity intact.