num_pages: 208
description: The Most Dog-Eared Teacher's Edition You'll Have in Your ClassroomTeaching is tough. And teachers like the rest of the population aren't perfect. Yet good teaching happens and great teachers continue to inspire and educate generations of students. See Me After Class helps those great teachers of the future to survive the classroom long enough to become great.Fueled by hundreds of hilarious--and sometimes shocking--tales from the teachers who lived them Elden provides tips and strategies that deal head-on with the challenges that aren't covered in new-teacher training. Lessons can go wrong. Parents may yell at you. Sunday evenings will sometimes be accompanied by the dreaded countdown to Monday morning. As a veteran teacher Elden offers funny practical and honest advice to help teachers walk through the doors of their classrooms day after day with clarity confidence...and sanity!You know how you've always thought that if you were a teacher you'd go insane? Well this very funny book proves that you definitely would. But in a good way.--Dave Barry Pulitzer Prize winning humor writerA useful empathetic guide to weathering the first-year lumps...a frothy satisfying Guinness for the teacher's soul.--Dan Brown NBCT Director of the Future Educators Association and author of The Great Expectations SchoolSee Me After Class is a must-have book for any teacher's bookshelf. On second thought you'll probably want to keep it on your classroom desk since you'll use it so much!--Larry Ferlazzo teacher and author of Helping Students Motivate ThemselvesThis is the kind of no-nonsense straight talk that teachers are starved for but too rarely get...Roxanna Elden tells it like it is with a heavy dose of practicality a dash of cynicism a raft of constructive suggestions and plenty of wry humor.--Rick Hess Director of Education Policy Studies at AEI author of Education Week blog Rich Hess Straight Up
language: English
title: See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers
publisher: Sourcebooks