No matter how well a teacher is trained, facing 25 children in a classroom for the very first time has to be an intimidating experience. Linda Shalaway knows all about these fears, and in Learning to Teach, she shares her knowledge and experience to help a teacher through the first days, weeks, and months of a new teaching assignment. Learning to Teach is an invaluable guide to organizing the classroom, what learning is all about, motivating learners and teaching them to care, assessing their learning, relating to children’s parents, and growing professionally as a teacher. Linda Shalaway draws confidently on a wealth of research findings as well as the accumulated wisdom of practicing teachers.
