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The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher (Book & DVD) Paperback – 1 January 2009

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The best-selling book ever on classroom management and teaching for student achievement with over 4 million copies sold. The book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through structuring and organizing a classroom for success that can be applied at any time of the year at any grade level, pre-K through college.

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Publisher : Harry K. Wong Publications; 4th edition (1 January 2009)

Language : English

Paperback : 352 pages

ISBN-10 : 0976423316

ISBN-13 : 978-0976423317

Dimensions : 24.77 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm

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Harry K. Wong is an award-winning teacher and new teacher advocate. Harry is a native of San Francisco and is arguably the most sought-after motivational speaker in education today having given some 3000 presentations to over a million people. He has been called 'Mr. Practicality' for his common sense, user-friendly, no-cost approach to managing a classroom for high-level student success. The March 2006 issue of Instructor magazine named him one of the 20 most admired people in education along with Maya Angelou, Howard Gardner, and Oprah Winfrey. He has received numerous other teaching honors. Profits from the sale of the book fund 'The First Days of School Foundation.' That foundation has built and funds the 250 student 'Wong Mean Reth Learning Academy' in the jungles of Cambodia.

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Halima B.
An excellent book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2019
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I found this book very useful in my teacher training course.
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Varvara
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2016
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I love it. Nice book. Delivered fast and in good condition
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Aisha
Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2014
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What a great book. Many ideas and helpful hints for the first days of school. I wish I had read it sooner...
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Just what I needed! But maybe not the best organized ...
Reviewed in Canada on 11 March 2018
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In a nutshell: this book pretty much single-handedly filled a crucial gap in my teaching! Allow me to explain. My teaching practicum experience many years ago (2001-03) was unusual in the sense that I wasn't taught much about the "meat and potatoes" of teaching, but rather to focus on how to teach the curriculum and to consider the big philosophical issues of education (inclusive education, standardized testing pros and cons, etc.). It's as though the faculty was expecting my mentor teachers to cover the basics and my mentor teachers were expecting the faculty to teach them. So when I got my first full-time assignment in 2004, I had only the most basic understanding of how to manage a classroom. Perhaps that's why my contract only lasted one year; it wasn't a disaster, but I felt like I was missing some basic understandings that would have made things run much more smoothly - and look much more impressive on my evaluations.

Several years later and looking to move from the substitute teaching list back to full-time teaching after pursuing another profession, I saw this book one day in a classroom and decided to order it. As I mentioned, it has pretty much single-handedly filled the gap for me! I now have a concrete classroom management plan and also a much better understanding of how exactly to align my teaching and assessment with curriculum standards. I now have an arsenal of concrete ideas and solutions to bring into my next interview instead of looking a little flustered when asked questions like, "So, what's your classroom management plan?" as I was during an interview only three months ago.

So why only 4 stars? I found it hard to get into the book. I started at page one and first of all got the sense that there were sometimes too many side-boxes of info. I also got the sense that a bunch of post-it notes and other notes had been thrown together to create some sort of Frankenstein-like structure at times. Also, repetition is good, but in several places in this book seems to do so redundantly or in a haphazard way, again due to what I just mentioned. So the bottom line is that it's a bit messy, that it could have shaved off 50 pages if it had been better organized.

BUT IF YOU CAN GET OVER THIS like I did, then this book is pure gold. It's immensely practical even though it's long-winded or haphazard at times. I would advise taking a couple of months to really dig through it, however, and be serious about creating a management plan or else you won't get out of this book everything that it has to offer. In other words, you simply won't be able to read and do much about this book if you're start a new teaching position in a week or two.
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Guida Allès
Útil però només tracta sobre rutines
Reviewed in Spain on 16 March 2014
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Només es centra en com treballar les rutines i procediments. No parla d'aprenentatge cooperatiu. Informacions i enllaços pràctics però tb té palla. Escrit estil americà: exemples, paral·lelismes amb altres professions. Massa didactista: ara paralarem sobre/ hem parlat de...Si algú vol saber com treballar rutines, aquest és el seu llibre. Útil per saber com gestionar l'aula, detall a detall.
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