What Every 1st Grade Teacher Needs to Know about Setting Up and Running a Classroom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781892989406)

You're teaching first grade this year. What do you need to know? Margaret Berry Wilson gives you practical information about daily routines, furniture, and much more. She starts with a concise review of first graders' common developmental characteristics and then shows how to adjust your classroom and your teaching to fit these common characteristics. The result: Students can learn, and you can teach, with minimum frustration and maximum ease and joy.

In a warm, conversational style punctuated with anecdotes and examples from her own classrooms, Margaret shares practical know-how on topics like this:

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

Author: Margaret Berry Wilson
ISBN-10: 1892989409
ISBN-13: 9781892989406
Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools Inc
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2011
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.40d