Product Description

Designed for both the new and experienced teacher, this fully updated second edition of the best-selling Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide offers a practical source of ready-to-use tips and strategies for solving the everyday problems teachers face while organizing and managing a classroom. Replete with behavior management and assistive discipline strategies, this updated second edition includes tested suggestions, techniques, and reproducibles to help you save time and handle problems in scores of specific areas such as classroom routines, motivation, supplies, parent conferences, lesson plans, grading, conflict resolution, testing, team teaching, cooperative learning, homework, open houses, and many more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #389003 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-13
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"Teachers will value his insights, his extremely useful resources, and his practical wisdom."
--Thomas R. McDaniel, senior vice president and professor of education, Converse College

"Provides common sense suggestions for classroom management and instructional delivery, and offers a wealth of handout masters to get teachers off to a great start!"
--Jodi A. Lamb, Ph.D. director, staff development, School District of Manatee County

"I use the Survival Guide throughout the year as a reference tool and give it as a practical gift to my student teachers--they love it!"
--Elizabeth Eddy, National Board Certified Teacher, Westerville South High School

From the Back Cover
Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide

Practical Strategies, Management Techniques, and Reproducibles for New and Experienced Teachers, Second Edition

Designed for both the new and experienced teacher, this fully updated second edition of the best-selling Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide offers a practical source of ready-to-use tips and strategies for solving the everyday problems teachers face while organizing and managing a classroom.

Replete with behavior management and assistive discipline strategies, this updated second edition includes tested suggestions, techniques, and reproducibles to help you save time and handle problems in scores of specific areas such as classroom routines, motivation, supplies, parent conferences, lesson plans, grading, conflict resolution, testing, team teaching, cooperative learning, homework, open houses, and many more.

Here is just a sampling of the topics and reproducibles you'll find in each section:

Create a Supportive Learning Environment: The First Day of School . . . Humor in the Classroom . . . Thirty Hot Tips for Managing Classroom Behavior.

Creating Successful Lessons: Lesson Plans . . . Twenty Tips for Closing a Lesson . . . Putting More Pizzazz in Your Presentation . . . Homework That Helps.

Alternatives to Lectures: Twenty-Two Tips for Asking Effective Questions . . . Journal Keeping . . . Field Trips . . . Videotaping.

Building a Learning Community: Twenty-Four Hot Tips for Working with Other Teachers . . . Guidelines for Collaborative Teams.

In Search of Educational Excellence: Twenty-Two Tips for Becoming an Effective Teacher . . . Why Teachers Fail

Effective Use of School Time: The Erosion of School Time . . . Block Scheduling . . . Eleven Tips on Minimizing Classroom Interruptions

Helpful Teaching Resources: The Internet as a Learning Resource . . . Tips on Getting Started on the Internet . . . Computer Software for Improving Teacher Productivity.

"Teachers will value his insights, his extremely useful resources, and his practical wisdom."
—Thomas R. McDaniel, senior vice president and professor of education, Converse College

"Provides common-sense suggestions for classroom management and instructional delivery, and offers a wealth of handout masters to get teachers off to a great start!"
—Jodi A. Lamb, Ph.D., director, staff development, School District of Manatee County

"I use the Survival Guide throughout the year as a reference tool and give it as a practical gift to my student teachers—they love it!"
—Elizabeth Eddy, National Board Certified Teacher, Westerville South High School

About the Author
Ronald L. Partin, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in educational psychology and counseling and has more than thirty-five years' experience as an educator, scholar, counselor, consultant, and presenter. Partin is the author of The Social Studies Teachers' Book of Lists, 2nd Edition from Jossey-Bass.

Customer Reviews

Good Book with lots of neat ideas
I am a 2nd grade teacher. I have found that this books has given me lots of great ideas. When you are first starting out as a teacher you forget all those little things that you might need or others have suggested. This book puts it all together. I have sticky notes ALL over this book. I am very pleased with what is has said.

I really expected more
I got this book even though I saw some negative reviews. I'm still happy I got the book, but it definitely is not worth what I paid for it.

I'm a student teacher, and 90% of the stuff in this book is either common sense or stuff I've learned a hundred times before, so I just skimmed through most of it.

Many of the Internet sites it suggests as resources were no longer working, but a few were pretty good. The reproducibles were not very impressive, and I wouldn't use them, except they did give me a few ideas for ones I can make myself. The organization of the book was terrible. I was holding myself back from just sitting down with scissors and glue to rearrange everything into a more usable format. There were even a lot of typos, screwed up formatting, and repeated words and phrases that I was surprised made it past the proofreader (guaranteed to drive English teachers crazy).

Overall, I would say that it has the right idea about what a teacher needs, but it needs some work. Buy this book if you really just want some extra ideas to draw from. If you're looking for a guide to teaching, skip this book and hang out in a few different classrooms with a variety of teachers for a couple of years.

Too much is really too little
I agree with the second review of this book. I spent 4 years reading textbooks in order to understand the philosophy, discipline, and economics of teaching, and didn't need another now that I'm actually a new teacher. What I hoped for was a practical handbook with easy references, quick tips, and thorough information readily available to me before, during, and after my school day, and this book was simply too cumbersome to utilize in that way. Some information regarding classroom management I found to be questionable at worst, lacking at best. There are better resources out there, so skip this one.