The First Days of School
How to Be an Effective Teacher, 4th Edition

This book is given to new teachers in my school district, to help them start the school year. That's a scary thought for me, because I've never been a big believer in Wong's ideals about what teaching is. He largely stays on the surface here, with how to dress, what to put on the walls, how to make a......more

This book taught me several things that were not taught in my teaching courses, for example: - How spending time at the beginning of the school year, teaching class procedures instead of content will actually maximize instructional time for the rest of the year. - How to use a predictable daily routin......more

This was the textbook for the seminar that accompanied my student teaching this past semester. It was, perhaps, not written for me, as by the time I was student teaching, I had already been in the classroom for a number of years. I did find some of the information, particularly on classroom routines......more

A veteran teacher's perspective I have been teaching for 16 years, and most of those were spent in grades 6-8. I read this book because I have heard it mentioned by other teachers and it is the #1 education book on Goodreads. Classroom Management and Discipline Unit C on classroom management is great.......more

If Harry Wong tried these strategies with my students, he'd get shanked.......more