ASIN: B00NHQQXW8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 101
By the third school year of her first teaching job, Laurie Boyd had lost complete control of one high school English class. “I did not know how to manage my classroom or discipline teenagers. I took their playful and disruptive behavior personally. Even though I knew my content and could deliver an effective lesson, I was miserable as a teacher. Believing I was not cut out for the classroom, I was relieved when the district dissolved my position, due to staff reductions, at the close of that school year.”Fifteen years later, Laurie accepted a long-term substitute teacher position, the fourth in a sequence of substitute teachers, who had been run out of a hard-to-staff, urban middle school by the extreme misbehavior of the students. For three years, first as a sub and then as an English teacher at her first school, Laurie learned that a clearly communicated, fair system of procedures ...
