Includes index.

Preface -- About the Author -- The Art of Teaching -- Assessment -- Back-to-School Night -- Books -- Calculators -- Career Path -- Cheating -- Class Management -- Classroom Talk -- Colleagues -- Computers -- Confidence -- Contests -- Cooperative Learning -- Curriculum -- Discipline -- Einstein Points -- Field Trips -- First Day of School -- First Week of School -- Games -- Getting Along -- Getting Out More -- Grades -- Guest Speakers -- Homework -- How to Become Hated -- Improvise -- Individual Needs -- Jobs in the Classroom -- Knowledge -- Last Days of School -- Learning Is a Process -- Lesson Plans -- Lies -- Making Yourself Accessible -- Media -- Mentoring -- Mistakes -- Modeling -- Movies About Teachers -- New Students -- New Stuff and Neat Stuff -- New Teacher -- Nonverbal Communication -- Openers -- Organizing for Success -- Parents -- Photocopying -- Pizzazz -- Portfolios -- Power in the Classroom -- Principals -- Principles -- Quotations in the Classroom -- Recognizing Students -- Respect -- Room Environment -- Rules -- School Reform -- Special Education -- Staff Meetings -- Standards -- Substitute Teachers -- Support Personnel -- Talking to Parents -- Talking to Students -- Teacher Evaluation -- Teaching: A Look Back -- Teaching Teachers to Teach -- Team Teaching - Tests -- Textbooks -- "That's a Shame!" -- "This Is Boring!" and Other Ego Traps -- Timing -- Units of Study -- Veterans and Rookies -- videos in the Classroom -- Why You Should Not Teach -- Why You Should Teach -- Zeal -- Index.