Keys to the Classroom

A Teacher’s Guide to the First Month Of School

“It’s the first resource I look at to plan my first few weeks of activities…and every year I incorporate new ones. Great for bilingual teachers, too, because the activities are in English and Spanish.”
       — Alice Escobar, 3^rd grade Bilingual Teacher, Santa Cruz Elementary Schools, Santa Cruz, CA

This practical, easy-to-use workbook provides lesson plans, classroom management strategies, student assessments, and special aids for teaching bilingual students. Everything any teacher needs to start the school year off positively and powerfully! From organizing the first day to sample letters to parents in English and Spanish – this book will help even the veteran teacher create a positive classroom environment.

This updated Second Edition offers expanded material to respond to today’s challenges:

• New first chapter – Guide to Planning
• An extensive two-week plan for K-6
• New field-tested activities
• Up-to-date assessment material
• Expanded ESL sections

Developed by five advisors with the California New Teacher Project, this book includes input of many new an veteran teachers and has been field-tested in the Santa Cruz County New Teacher Project – with rave reviews from beginning, second year, and veteran teachers.

By Carrol Moran, Judy Stobbe, Wendy Baron, Janette Miller, Ellen Moir
June 2000
240 pages
Handbook format: 8 1/2” x 11”
Paperback: $34.95
Hardcover: 79.95

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