Rookie Teaching for Dummies

by W. Michael Kelley

Navigate politics, paperwork, and legal issues

Find your instructional style and make learning fun for your students!

Gain the upper hand on your first day of school! This friendly guide reveals what they didn't teach you in your education classes, offering practical advice and tons of real-life examples to help you set up and maintain an orderly classroom, engage your students, establish a grading system, and develop positive relationships with parents and school administrators.

The Dummies Way
* Explanations in plain English
* "Get in, get out" information
* Icons and other navigational aids
* Tear-out cheat sheet
* Top ten lists
* A dash of humor and fun

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Reference

364 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

About the author

The author has written a bunch of books about math (like The Complete Idiot's Guide to Precalculus, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus (Second Edition), and The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems).

His website, www.calculus-help.com, hosts over a thousand unique visitors a day, even though it features an unflattering animated graphic of him dancing at his wedding.

(from the back of one of his books)

Reviews

[Melisa Stark]

Classroom management was the first challenge I faced last week when I started teaching as an afterschool instructor for below average 2nd graders at an inner-city charter school in south L.A. What I have learned from this book and other teachers is to be firm and strict with them in the begining, ease into it and you can loosen up later when you have all the rules and expectations established.

[Risa · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great read that manages to be both professionally-helpful and entertaining. Most of the ideas, although often based on the American school system, are ones that can easily be adapted for use in other countries.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

For teachers who don't know how to teach

[Barbi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is must-read for any first-year teachers. Your schooling covers the philosophical issues and this book covers the day-to-day "how do I make my classroom work" issues.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful. Provides numerous tips that resonate throughout the year. Highly reccomended.