Teaching from the deep end: succeeding with today's classroom challenges

Foreword to the Second Edition by Gregory Michie Preface About the Author Part One: Getting There 1. The Teaching Profession: What Are You Doing and Why Are You Doing It? 2. Perception During the Job Search 3. Your Educational Philosophy: Creating Your Teaching Tenets 4. Reflective Writing Exercises for New and Veteran Teachers 5. Remember the Paul Potts Principle: It Is So (If You Think So) Part Two: Being There 6. The Classroom: Where the Teacher's Path and the Student's Path Converge 7. The Teacher's Words: You Can Heal and You Can Harm 8. The Teaching Persona: Who You Are When You're Standing up There at the Big Desk 9. Working With Colleagues: Being a Team Player 10. Dealing With School Hierarchy and Politics 11. Don't Make Things Worse: Avoiding Deficit Views of Children 12. A Pep Talk About Parents 13. Seven Yin-Yang Blunders to Avoid Part Three: Staying There 14. Classroom Ethics: 68 What-If's That Will Make Any Teacher Say Yikes! 15. Major Stresses in the Teaching Profession: Why You Must Remain a Teacher 16. The Paperwork Can Kill You 17. Living in Testmania Part Four: Bringing Others There 18. Creating Programs for Teacher Preparation: The Programs of the Golden Apple Foundation in Illinois Epilogue: Group Hug References Index