Letters to a new teacher
Subtitle: a month-by-month guide to the year ahead
By: Jim Burke with Joy Krajicek.
Contributors: Krajicek, Joy.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Subjects: First year teachers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How do you manage a class of 35 sophomores who won't stop talking or pay attention?; title: How do you create a unit when teaching a book?; title: How do you handle all the pressures of teaching?; title: How do you make sure you challenge all students, especially when you have a challenging class of so many different kids?; title: How do I know if I am making a difference?; title: What is your approach to teaching writing?; title: I am boring them to death: how can I possibly compete with lunch and the weekend, cell phones and their friends?; title: Do you have any poets or books of poetry to recommend for my own reading?; title: What works and why?; title: Are there different types of teacher personalities?: if so, which one is right for me?; title: Can you recommend any books about teaching essay writing?; title: Do you still fear you will fail as a teacher?; title: How can I use what I learned last semester to improve next semester?; title: How do you organize time to make sure you get everything done?; title: How are we to think about the teacher's power to help and harm students?; title: How can a teacher have a relationship with a student and thus harm not only the student but himself?; title: What is the teacher's role when there is a crisis in the classroom?; title: Have you ever had a student commit suicide?: and if so, what did you do?; title: What is your relationship with parents?; title: What is open house and what should I do?; title: What can I hope to accomplish in the time we have left?; title: How do you do it.