How to Be Successful in Your First Year of Teaching Middle School Everything You Need to Know That They Don't Teach You in School - Softcover

This heavily researched, detailed book will help first-year middle school teachers learn how to handle supplies, planning, parents, overcrowded classrooms, the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, piles of paperwork, money shortages due to budget cuts, negativity from pubescent students and other staff members, at-risk students, students who are capable but choose not to work, and special needs students. You will learn how to ask principals and administrators for help, memorize names quickly, create seating charts, write lesson plans, follow a daily routine, help struggling readers, gain respect, find a mentor, develop and implement a grading system, discipline students who feel they are more mature than they are, create assessments, find free things for teachers online, and build your confidence. The most important thing of all, you will learn how to deal with the rapidly changing emotions and hormones of new teenagers and middle school age students.

Anne Kocsis worked in the Cumberland Valley school district as a teacher's aide. She is currently a freelance writer and the mother of three children: a son who is a senior in high school, a son in his last year of middle school, and a daughter in fifth grade. This is her third book with Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. She is also the author of How to Be Successful in Your First Year of Teaching High School: Everything You Need to Know That They Don't Teach You in School