Testing Your Mettle: Tough Problems and Real-World Solutions for Middle and High School Teachers - Softcover

Alexandrowicz, Harry J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761977538 ISBN 13: 9780761977537

Publisher: Corwin Press, 2001

Synopsis

A practical guide to prepare teachers for real-life classrooms!This handy guide goes beyond theory to make "reality training" available to both novice and experienced teachers. It presents a series of scenarios that encapsulate the inevitable legal, philosophical, and common sense challenges teachers face every day. It includes four possible solutions to the problem identified, space for you to state what you would do, then sections on what actually happened, what should have happened, and why. Sample scenarios include: When a parent threatens you; you witness students hazing another student; you discover a gun in a student’s locker; the school’s best athlete is failing your class; you see inappropriate student behavior outside of the classroom.

About this title

About the Author

Harry J. Alexandrowicz is currently Superintendent of Schools in Woodland Township, New Jersey. Over the past 28 years he has served as a teacher, assistant principal, high school and middle school principal, and superintendent. In addition, he has served as an adjunct professor of educational foundations at Rowan University and has made numerous staff development presentations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761977538
• ISBN 13: 9780761977537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152