Classroom Advice for New Teachers

New teachers are confronted every day with challenges they never anticipated during their training. This book gives advice to help them survive the first year.

Jeff Julian has been a full-time teacher in western New York State for 32 years. He has spent the last 28 of those at his current school, with the last 27 as the head of his social-studies department. Throughout his career, Mr. Julian mentored new teachers in his department, wrote and implemented new curriculum for the state, made presentations to prospective teachers, and held training sessions for faculty members in effective instructional techniques. In addition to his full-time high-school teaching position, Mr. Julian also serves as an adjunct instructor, teaching public speaking in a college communications department.