This book is designed to give new teachers the tools they need to follow their best instincts about what to do in their own classrooms. It also strives to assist experienced teachers who are on the edge of burnout in remembering what made them want to teach in the first place. The suggestions are designed to help teachers focus on why they…

This book presents advice, in the form of 11 commandments, on how new and veteran teachers can achieve a classroom environment that promotes exemplary teaching and learning. The advice is designed to help teachers: focus on why they became teachers in the first place; see their students as unique individuals; ask for help from the principal or…