Teaching 101: Classroom Strategies for the Beginning Teacher

Learn the essential must-know strategies to a rewarding and successful teaching career at any grade level!

Teaching 101, one of the most comprehensive introductions to teaching available, is a book that inspires, encourages, and provides essential knowledge and skills for becoming an exceptional teacher at any level. Reader-friendly, easy to understand, and practical, this is a book from which you′ll learn and continue to reference throughout your career. Teaching 101 is packed with helpful hints and best practices covering essential topics and issues in today′s classrooms, including:

• Differentiating instruction
• Lesson planning
• Classroom management
• Teaching to standards
• Grading and assessment
• Student achievement
• Literacy
• Study skill instruction
• Questioning techniques
• Cooperative learning · Inclusion
• Technology as a teaching tool
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification

Additional resources include questions and activities at the end of each chapter, essential readings for further study, key Web sites, and an engaging self-assessment instrument for reflection. Teaching is a lifelong journey of self-expression and self-discovery. Let Teaching 101 be your guide along the way.

Jeffrey Glanz currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for University-School Partnership, Director of the Masters Program and the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. Prior to coming to YU, Dr. Glanz served as Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Department of Education at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He also coordinated the educational leadership program that led to New York State certification as a principal and assistant principal. Prior to arriving at Wagner, he served as executive assistant to the president of Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Dr. Glanz held faculty status as a tenured professor in the Department of Instruction and Educational Leadership at Kean University’s College of Education. He was named Graduate Teacher of the Year in 1999 by the Student Graduate Association and was also that year’s recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He served as a teacher and assistant principal in the New York City public schools. He has conducted numerous workshops and seminars internationally. Dr. Glanz has authored, coauthored, and co-edited 20 books and has many peer-reviewed article publications.