What Every 1st Grade Teacher Needs to Know About Setting Up and Running a Classroom - Softcover

Wilson, Margaret Berry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892989409 ISBN 13: 9781892989406

Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Inc, 2011

Synopsis

You're teaching 1st grade this year. What do you need to know? In a warm, conversational style punctuated with anecdotes and examples from her own classrooms, Margaret Berry Wilson reviews first graders' common developmental characteristics and shares practical know-how on topics such as:

• Arranging a circle, desks, and tables
• Choosing and storing supplies
• Scheduling a child-centered day and teaching daily routines
• Planning special projects and field trips that maximize learning and build community
• Understanding the special concerns of first graders' parents and finding the best ways to communicate with them

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Berry Wilson has fifteen years of experience teaching kindergarten, first, and second grades. She leads workshops and coaches teachers on using the Responsive Classroom approach. She is also the author of articles, blogs, and several other books published by Center for Responsive Schools.

Review:

Great book—my principal ordered it for all 18 first grade teachers in our building as well as special education teachers and literacy specialists who support our first graders. --Nancy S. Dallett, 1st grade teacher, Springfield, PA

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1892989409
• ISBN 13: 9781892989406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124