Introduction 1 Part 1: What They Didn't Teach You in College 7 Chapter 1: What Have You Gotten Yourself Into? 9 Chapter 2: Dealing with Society's Nutty Notions about Teaching 27 Chapter 3: How Things Have Changed in the Classroom 39 Part 2: Managing Your Classroom 53 Chapter 4: Finding Your Way Around 55 Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Classroom 71 Chapter 6: The First Week of School 89 Chapter 7: Keeping Your Classroom Under Control 105 Chapter 8: Picking Your Battles 123 Part 3: Delivering Instruction 141 Chapter 9: Finding Your Style 143 Chapter 10: Making Learning Fun 159 Chapter 11: Managing Assessment 177 Part 4: Meet the Supporting Cast 191 Chapter 12: Getting to Know Your Administrators 193 Chapter 13: Getting to Know Your Coworkers 211 Chapter 14: Getting to Know Parents 227 Chapter 15: Getting to Know Students 247 Part 5: Non-Instructional Duties 261 Chapter 16: Implicit and Explicit Duties 263 Chapter 17: Taming Administrative Tasks 279 Chapter 18: Protecting Students Under Your Care 291 Part 6: The Part of Tens 311 Chapter 19: Ten Things That Always Happen to First-Year Teachers 313 Chapter 20: The Ten Biggest First-Year Teacher Blunders 319 Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Teaching Online 325 Index 331.