
My First Year in the Classroom
50 Stories That Celebrate the Good, the Bad, and the Most Unforgettable Moments
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
My First Year in the Classroom
50 Stories That Celebrate the Good, the Bad, and the Most Unforgettable Moments
About this book
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
—Lao TzuBut is the teacher ready? That's the question that haunts every teacher that fateful first day in the classroom. Making it through that day and the 179 school days that follow is how every career in education—and lifelong learning—truly begins. In this collection, fifty teachers share the trials, tribulations, and triumphs they've experienced during their first year on the job. Organized along the lines of the school calendar, these touching tales illustrate the learning curve experienced by new teachers:
- Facing Day One
- Meeting the Students
- Surprising the Students
- Bonding with Faculty and Staff
- Being Surprised by the Students
- Watching the Students Bloom
- Saying Farewell
From the hilariously obsessive-compulsive preparation of a rookie English professor to the poignant lesson a bold third grader imparts upon his novice teacher about love and acceptance, this moving collection is sure to motivate new and veteran teachers alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Preparing for a New Year
- Reluctant Journey
- Never Let Them See You Sweat
- My Open House Orientation
- Whupped
- High and Dry
- Coping
- The Beginning of Hope
- Rumors
- Student Teaching
- Not to Mention the Python
- That Which Does Not Destroy Me
- Coming Full Circle
- With the Accent on Foreign
- Preconceptions
- Two Years for the Pain of One
- It’s All Good
- Mrs. Psycho Loses Her Place in English Class
- A Sharp Memory
- It’s All about the Preparation
- Classroom Clown
- What Do You Teach Best
- The First Day of the Rest of My Career
- The Twisted, Noisy Path
- A First Year That Never Ended
- A Class Surprise
- Lessons Learned
- Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy
- We Are Just Crazy
- Part-Time Teaching Is a Full-Time Job
- Sweet Success
- How to Teach When You Look Sixteen
- Teaching Josh
- Classroom What Classroom
- Taking Charge of the Cultural Classroom
- Here’s to Bad Teaching Days
- Blue Hawaii
- Pizza
- RT (1982)
- Reading the Riot Act
- Quiet Time in the Fourth Grade
- Substitute Initiation
- Mary
- Beautiful
- The Midday Gasp
- Special Words
- The Perfect Mistake
- When I Breathed I Clinked
- Learning to Say Goodbye
- Left
- Closing
- Contributor Biographies