Books to Read

One thing that this year of teaching has done for me is that it has really helped me with my classroom management skills. I was ok during student teaching, but I was nervous, insecure, afraid of alienating the students... the list goes on. As a sub, or guest teacher, you can't afford to have weak classroom management skills. It makes your day exhausting.

I am big on studying a problem to death when faced with one. Mine this past year was, ' How on Earth am I going to do this?'

I read a TON of books. The two I found my helpful were " Substitute teaching from A to Z' By Barbara Pressman and

Setting Limits in the Classroom: How to move beyond the Dance of Discipline in Today's Classroom by Robert Mackenzie