Synopses & Reviews
Handbook for the Beginning Teacher is an invaluable reference of best practices to help the student teacher or the beginning in-service teacher prepare for and develop their first classroom. This book is filled with teaching ideas, tips, and checklists to make the teacher's job easier. The book contains useful information on how to assess and grade students and on the issue of politics in the school, giving detailed information on working with special populations of students, including students with disabilities, children with ADD, and children who are school phobic, truant, at-risk, or gifted and talented. Handbook for the Beginning Teacher also includes classroom management techniques and protective behaviors and procedures to use to avoid violence in the school and in the individual classroom.