First Year Urban Teacher

As a first year teacher, you must prepare extensively for every conceivable situation. Most importantly, you must develop a system of classroom management. Students must know the classroom rules -- what they can and cannot do -- and the appropriate consequences for every broken rule. In college, you may have been introduced to a variety of philosophies and ideologies that have no real effective impact on your day-to-day interactions with students. Often, college education alone does not prepare you for the procedures that must be executed in the classroom each day -- the little things, like lining students, keeping them quiet in the school corridors, transitions, etc. You may feel overwhelmed by the responsibility, the number of students, and the unique environment of the urban school. Fortunately, there is help. We have developed an instructional guidebook that will fully prepare you for the scenarios you will encounter as a first year teacher. Not only will this book prepare you for such circumstances, it will give you the techniques to prevent and eliminate unwanted behaviors and circumstances. First Year Urban School teacher provides practical classroom management techniques and strategies from which new teachers can use and blend into their own management styles. To date, First Year Urban Schoolteacher is the only comprehensive instructional book geared specifically to the needs of the urban schoolteacher. "It is an absolute must-read for all new teachers."