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1	Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year more books like this by Esme Raji Codell add to wishlist Esme Codell's diary of her first year as a fifth-grade teacher in Chicago's public schools. Ms. Esme's enthusiasm never wavers. Her classroom is an active one, full of projects and activities from storytelling to conflict resolution sessions. Outside the classroom, she endures doubting colleagues, a perplexing bureaucracy, and a principal who at ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers more books like this by Wilbert McKeachie, Marilla Svinicki add to wishlist McKeachie's Teaching Tips is a handbook designed to provide helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of teaching at the university level, and those that pop up in trying to maximize learning for every student. The suggested strategies are supported by research and are grounded in enough theory to enable teachers to adapt them ... see all copies from $43.47! new only from $45.70! \| SVS
3	Why Didn't I Learn This in College?: Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century more books like this by Paula Rutherford add to wishlist This title is in no way meant to condemn those who direct our collegiate experiences. The realities are that we may well have studied these topics and earned a good grade on a test over the theoretical aspects of this information but had no classroom experience on which to hook the information, that we took an alternative approach to entering the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day more books like this by Julia G Thompson add to wishlist The best selling "First Year Teacher's Survival Kit" gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuable tips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becoming effective team players and ... see all copies from $18.14! new only from $18.14! \| SVS
5	The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors more books like this by Professor Peter G Filene, Ken Bain (Foreword by) add to wishlist Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses. Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in which the instructor pitches ideas to students to ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $19.19! \| SVS
6	Ms. Moffett's First Year: Becoming a Teacher in America more books like this by Abby Goodnough add to wishlist Through the compelling, sometimes heartbreaking story of one new teacher's experience in a Brooklyn elementary school classroom, a New York Times education reporter illuminates the complex dilemmas currently confounding American public education In summer of 2000, legal secretary Donna Moffett answered an ad for the New York City Teaching ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers more books like this by Wilbert J. McKeachie add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
8	Rookie Teaching for Dummies more books like this by W Michael Kelley add to wishlist Practical, proven classroom strategies to help first-time teachers For the nearly 200,000 rookie teachers who start out every year, adjusting to classroom realities can be a struggle. That's where this book comes in. Written by a veteran teacher who's been there, done that, it shows rookies how to gain the upper hand with students from day one and ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $5.35! \| first editions
9	Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms more books like this by Gloria Ladson-Billings add to wishlist "Gloria Ladson-Billings provides a perceptive and interesting account of what is needed to prepare novice teachers to be successful with all students in our multicultural society. This book is must reading for all those entering the profession of teaching today and for those who prepare them for this important work."--Ken Zeichner, associate dean ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.62! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America more books like this by Donna Foote add to wishlist Journalist Foote offers a revealing look inside a national phenomenon, Teach for America, which has pursued one of the most daring--and controversial--strategies for closing the educational achievement gap between the richest and poorest students in the country. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Your First Year as an Elementary School Teacher: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional more books like this by Lynne Marie Rominger, Karen Heisinger, Natalie Elkin add to wishlist With the help of this handbook, first-year elementary school teachers learn how to determine classroom rules, create daily lesson plans, communicate with faculty and parents, and evaluate students fairly. "In the trenches" advice provides help and support from veteran teachers who have "survived". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.93!
12 view cover	The Field Guide to Teaching: A Handbook for New Teachers more books like this by Richard J Marchesani add to wishlist The goal of The Field Guide to Teaching: A Handbook for New Teachers is to provide very specific and practical guidance for those who are entering the teaching profession. The book offers guidelines, hints and fundamental information geared to help the novice teacher avoid common pitfalls and to make a start on the road to becoming a professional ... see all copies from $9.59! new only from $15.99!
13 view cover	First-Year Teacher's Survival Kit: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day more books like this by Julia G Thompson add to wishlist This comprehensive resource gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. For easy use, it is organized into 16 sections covering everything from motivation, lesson planning and classroom management, to behavior ... see all copies from $4.26! new only from $9.25!
14 view cover	What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career more books like this by Paul Gray, Mr. David E Drew, Matthew Henry Hall (Illustrator) add to wishlist This title offers 199 tips for getting your PhD and surviving and thriving in your first years of teaching. Irreverent, but serious, this is the guide to what higher education institutions are really like. It is illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to life. Just landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and ... see all copies from $9.39! new only from $9.40! \| SVS
15 view cover	Day One & Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle-Level Teachers more books like this by Rick Wormeli add to wishlist Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks, and years of teaching. For new teachers or those just new to the middle-school environment, here is an invaluable resource from the author of ... see all copies from $14.70! new only from $16.88! \| SVS
16 view cover	K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for the New Professionals more books like this by Andrea M Guillaume add to wishlist K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals is a teaching guide written in clear, reader-friendly language. In the Primer, readers explore key aspects of classroom teaching including the context of teaching today, strategies for learning about students, planning and assessment, instruction and instructional strategies, classroom ... see all copies from $28.98! new only from $38.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	Your First Year as a High School Teacher: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional more books like this by Lynne Marie Rominger, Suzanne Packard Laughrea, Natalie Elkin add to wishlist Written with a witty flair and containing real-life stories and anecdotes, this guide is the perfect companion for the high school teacher who wants to succeed in the first year and beyond. see all copies from $3.14! new only from $11.34! \| SVS
18 view cover	Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Guiding, Reflecting, Coaching more books like this by Jean Boreen add to wishlist New teachers once shared the unhappy experience of being set adrift in their first classrooms, relying only on what they had learned in preservice courses or picked up from brief stints of student teaching. This is fortunately no longer the case, for preservice and inservice programs have wisely enlisted practicing veteran teachers as mentors to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.86!
19 view cover	Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School,1970 more books like this by Huston Diehl add to wishlist When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to ... see all copies from $8.30! new only from $20.68! \| SVS
20 view cover	Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success more books like this by Richard D Kellough add to wishlist For Introduction to Teaching courses. A volume of the successful Student Enrichment Series, this compact text is a veritable playbook for how to suceed and thrive during the first year of teaching. Believing that good teaching is as much an art as it is a science, this author presents guidelines focusing on practical, non-grade level and non ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Exceptional Teacher's Handbook: The First-Year Special Education Teacher's Guide to Success more books like this by Dr. Carla F Shelton, Dr. Alice B Pollingue add to wishlist 'Definitely recommended! This is a comprehensive and practical guide' - Tom Fischer, Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh This is a comprehensive resource book designed to assist and support the special education teacher through his or her first school year. The authors present a step-by-step ... see all copies from $9.53! new only from $35.95! \| SVS
22 view cover	The Emergency Teacher: The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School more books like this by Christina Asquith, Mark Bowden (Foreword by), Harry K Wong (Introduction by) add to wishlist Christina Asquith presents a moving first-hand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring "emergency certified" instructors. Asquith, then a 25-year-old ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	The American Teacher: Foundations of Education more books like this by Parkerson Donal, Donald Hugh Parkerson add to wishlist "The American Teacher" is a comprehensive education foundations text with an emphasis on the historical continuity of educational issues and their practical application in the classroom. Aspiring teachers enter the classrooms with an innate optimism, and the challenge of "The American Teacher" is to engage them and to provide meaningful direction ... see all copies from $28.30! new only from $44.30!
24 view cover	The First-Year Teacher's Checklist: A Quick Reference for Classroom Success more books like this by Julia G Thompson add to wishlist This easy-to-use reference - with hundreds of helpful, classroom-tested answers, ideas, techniques, and teaching tools - will help you on your way to a successful and productive school year. Designed to be flexible, the book offers a choice of ideas and approaches that best fit your classroom situation. Master teacher Julia Thompson shows you how ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $10.95! \| SVS
25 view cover	Case Studies of Beginning Teachers more books like this by Thoedore J Kowalski, Theodore T Kowalski, Roy A Weaver add to wishlist This collection of 35 first-year teaching experiences bridges educational theory and practice to shed light on actual challenges new teachers often confront. see all copies from $39.99! new only from $76.21! \| SVS

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