Tenaciously Teaching Teenagers: Stories and Strategies for Reaching Even the Toughest Students with Humor, Love, and Respect [Hardcover]

About the Author  Preface  Section One: Classroom Culture 1. Do You Earn Respect?  2. Making Yourself Human  3. Give Them a Voice  4. Kids Can Hear You Too  5. Humor In Kind  6. Late, Missing, or Absent, Oh My!  7. Safe From Reading  8. Writing Utensil Catastrophe  9. Accentuate Your Lessons  Section Two: Movement in the Classroom and into the Community  10. Learning In Motion  11. Musical Notes and Hitting School Property Softly  12. Put Them In the Lesson  13. Grade What You Are Grading  14. Your Student Is Their Heart  15. Go to Them  16. If Youre Not a Little Weird, Youre Not Normal  17. Thrift Life Forever  Section Three: Teaching the Toughest Kids  18. In School Suspension Sucks  19. Dont Sink Like a Stone  20. Get Real Talk  21. The Power Of Choice  22. The Toughest Ones Need You the Most  23. Step Into My Office  24. I Am Your Teacher For Life  Section Four: Things They Cannot Teach You in College  25. The Teacher Survival Guide: The 15 Things You Do Not Want To Be Without  Section Five: The Real Reason I Am a Teacher: True Stories  26. True Stories: I Cannot Make This Stuff Up  27. Proceed With Caution

The most rewarding aspect of being a teacher isnt how you get through the content, but how you reach your students and have a lifelong impact. In this funny and heartwarming book, Pamela Jean Matusz lets us into her classroom and shows how she connects with an often hard to understand speciesteenagers!

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