100 Practical Tips and Tricks for Novice Middle and High School Teachers

One of the most important determinants of teacher effectiveness is a teacher's ability to manage a classroom, yet it is an area with which novice teachers continue to struggle. Given the expansion of the era of accountability in education to include the use of student standardized testing scores in teacher evaluations, novice teachers are in even more need of helpful, practical resources in the area of classroom management. Classroom management, however, is more than an isolated dimension of effective teaching. It is highly influenced by the quality of a teacher's planning, instruction, assessment, and rapport with students. This book is intended to help novice secondary teachers with specific strategies in nine different dimensions of teaching, including classroom management. Unlike other books on classroom management, this book strays away from sweeping generalizations like "be organized" and provides detailed information about what new teachers will need to be organized, routines they can set up in their classrooms, and even how many binders they might need to buy and what they might be used for. Some tips even include exactly what teachers might say to students in given scenarios. Nine tips are directly related to what teachers should try to accomplish on the first day of school. Furthermore, the book provides explanations for why certain strategies work in some situations and why they will not work in others. Despite being such a comprehensive overview of important strategies in different areas of teaching, the book is not too dense with information and can easily be read in a day or used as a reference when teachers are confronting a tough situation.