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By Carol L. Malnor, The Heart of Teaching, Performance Learning Systems
Teaching is complex and challenging, and approximately 40 percent of teachers leave the profession within the first four years. If teachers applied the ideas presented in the Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide: Practical Strategies, Management Techniques, and Reproducibles for New and Experienced Teachers, not only would more beginning teachers survive, but veteran teachers would find more enjoyment and satisfaction in their teaching.
The Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide is a comprehensive and user-friendly reference filled with practical strategies and tips for solving the everyday problems teachers face while organizing and managing a classroom. You’ll discover how to create a supportive learning environment, design successful lessons, find alternatives to lecturing, build a learning community, and use school time effectively. The guide is designed so that you can pick and choose from among the smorgasbord of ideas to find exactly what you need for your unique classroom situation.
In each chapter you’ll find timesaving reproducibles as well as suggestions for related books, Internet sites, and other helpful resources. Various charts, tables, and checklists present information for quick and easy reading, and the dozens of pages of tips are immediately applicable. Here’s a brief sampling:
- “Twenty-Three More Tips for Becoming a Better Listener — Be sure your nonverbal messages are congruent with your verbal ones.”
- “Twenty-seven Mistakes Teachers Commonly Make — Isolating themselves from colleagues.”
- “Attacking Procrastination — Do the most important things first.”
This second edition specifically addresses the changes that have occurred in education since the first edition was published: the standards-based, high-stakes testing environment, the role of the Internet in learning, the increase on the time demands of teachers, and the call for greater teacher accountability.
Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide is perfect for both new and experienced teachers. As Elizabeth Eddy, a National Board Certified high school teacher states, “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!”
Note: Several of the ideas and suggestions presented in this guide are used in the PLS graduate course Classroom Management: Orchestrating a Community of Learners™.
Thomas R. McDaniel, Senior Vice President and Professor of Education, Converse College
Ron Partin hits a home run with his latest resource for classroom teachers. This compendium of suggestions, transparency masters, ready-to-use forms and other extremely practical materials—all presented in clear, well-organized, and wonderfully readable prose—is exactly what busy teachers are looking for.
This new edition of Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide, which incorporates Internet resources and even more practical suggestions from teachers who loved the first volume, will be a lifesaver for teachers new and old. Partin’s wise counsel and practical strategies for classroom success will appeal to busy teachers at all levels of the PK-12 public school continuum.
Ron’s new edition of his popular text should be on every teacher’s shelf. Those teachers who want practical strategies for integrating computers in instruction, differentiating instruction, designing strategies for meeting state standards, and working toward national board certification will be delighted with this most readable and practical contribution to their professional success.
Leila Giesenschlag, North Carolina Elementary School Teacher
Easy to read with many bulleted points, this book is helpful to first-year teachers as well as those who have been teaching for longer. I find that every now and then I need to look at something new to re-energize myself for better planning and more effective teaching. This book does that. It offers best practices in behavior management, time management, lesson planning, effective teaching, and assessment. It also contains helpful lists of professional organizations, professional journals, computer software sources, and instructional materials suppliers. While other authors spend so much time focusing on procedures, this author gives you helpful procedural information but focuses on explaining how you can build relationships with students and make learning an active endeavor. He even encourages you to smile while you're doing it.
By Al Haskvitz
This is one of those books that you need to thumb through to see if it fits your needs because it is more of a workbook than a textbook. Perhaps that is a good thing as many textbooks easily cost twice as much and provide far less practical advise than the author, Ronald Partin, has provided in this Classroom Teachers Survival Guide. I think this book is much better than the most anything out there for the novice teacher because it offers such basic information and so many checklists and printable resources. . . .The Classroom Teacher's Survival Guide is what I call the McBook. It is easy to read, has some nourishment, and doesn't cost as much as a full course meal. The author, Ronald Partin, has taken comments from those who attended his presentations and placed them in this publication to provide more substance. He writes that the work was designed to provide a variety of strategies and tips of solving the main problems teachers face such as organizing and managing the classroom, achieving a working relationship with students, maintaining classroom control, working with other adults in the school community (including parents), developing competence as! an effective instructor, and coping with the daily stress of teaching
Stephen G. Barkley, Executive Vice President
Performance Learning Systems, Inc.
Ron conducts research in all facets of education, guiding the legitimacy and credibility of PLS courses internationally. He has co-authored graduate courses and penned many rich articles to benefit teachers. First and foremost, Ron’s intention is to assist the classroom teacher to impart knowledge to students.
This third edition of Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide provides a rich recipe book or, depending on your generation, a drop-down menu of multiple options for teachers to use immediately and with tremendous success. It’s a virtual bible for K-12 educators, parents, home schools, administrators, coaches and others. I have been known to use some of the techniques in my own instruction of teachers!
Beginning teachers, in particular, will find Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide a life raft of support as they navigate their first years of school, as it is comprehensive, user-friendly, and provides practical strategies and tips for the everyday problems of organizing and managing a classroom. It’s no wonder that some districts in this country consistently order Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide for all their beginning teachers. Nothing could get them off to a better start.
Veteran educators will find these cutting edge concepts and practical ideas a stimulus to meeting new challenges and finding more enjoyment and satisfaction in their teaching, as this third edition taps into the newest research and trend toward technology, globalization, and multicultural teaching.