Best Year Ever! : Winning Strategies to Thrive in Today's Classroom [first edition]

Best Year Ever! provides teachers with proven classroom management strategies that can turn any classroom into a caring community, complete with high morale, infectious enthusiasm, and increased performance. This powerful teaching guide gives teachers the needed tools to build a successful team where individuals work together to achieve shared goals while striving for personal best. Instead of wasting precious time and frustration trying to continually put out brush fires in the classroom, teachers will have more time to enjoy what they entered this profession to do. Teach! Best Year Ever! is broken up into two sections. Section One (Setting the Table For Success) will provide teachers with four key strategies to help build their students into a winning team that will be better prepared to learn. Too often, teachers are pressured to start serving the meal (teach the curriculum) before they have a chance to properly set the table (create a positive, safe learning environment for all students). Bill will show how investing a little time to use these four strategies will pay huge dividends in the classroom the rest of the year cutting down on wasted time, stress, and frustration for teachers and students. In Section Two of this book, Bill provides a step-by-step playbook for how to create a Best Year Ever! experience for students and teachers alike. This section will include lesson plans and activities to use with the students that will set them up for success. As a bonus, Appendix 2 provides teachers with a thirty day supply of lesson plans to help build their teams, create a productive, safe learning climate, and set a positive tone for the rest of the year.