Teaching in the Trenches: Discipline and Classroom Management

By Sandra Fletcher Williams

This book is a survival guide for new teachers "Teaching in the trenches" is an expression used to describe the obstacles and battles that teachers encounter in the daily classroom environment. This book has been written by a teacher with thirty years of teaching experience. She shares the hilarious and heartbreaking accounts of her journey as a teacher and the positive effects of discipline and classroom management. The author provides these details in the book: â— the importance of the first two weeks of school; â— disciplining the low-socioeconomic students; â— how to become a no-nonsense teacher; â— believing in your students; â— speaking their language; â— classroom management; â— lesson plans; â— goal setting; â— organizing paperwork; â— your confidence; â— learning to laugh; â— being spontaneous; and much, much more. Visit our website at: www.alphakidsinc.com and email [e-mail].

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781646700486

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Teaching in the Trenches

Discipline and Classroom Management

Sandra Fletcher Williams

ISBN 978-1-64670-047-9 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64670-048-6 (Digital)

Copyright © 2020 Sandra Fletcher Williams

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Table of Contents

My School Days

The First Two Weeks of School

The Low-Socioeconomic Students

Disciplining Low-Socioeconomic Students

Leave It Home

Who Are You to Your Students?

No-Nonsense Teacher

Know Your Students

Believe in Your Students

Attitude

Classroom Management

Reading Center Rotation Example

Lesson Plans

Predict the Outcome

Joy

Goal Setting

Organize Paperwork

Confidence

Learn to Laugh

Be Spontaneous

About the Author

To God be all the glory and honor.

To my mother, my husband, my children, and grandchildren.

Train up a child in the way he should go;

and when he is old he will not depart from it.

—Proverbs 22:6, KJV

My School Days

To start this book, I thought it would be appropriate to share with you about what it was like when I attended school in the 1960s. When I started elementary school, the same school at which I am currently teaching, it did not have a kindergarten. But there was a day care program that I attended, and my day care teacher taught us our alphabets, etc. Most kids did not attend this program, and they entered school for the first time when they started first grade.

If anyone misbehaved, they were spanked by the teacher in the classroom in front of the students. Since most of my teachers lived in my community and attended my church, if I chose to misbehave, which I didn’t, they would tell my parents. I didn’t want my parents to find out that I misbehaved in school because when I got home, I would also receive a spanking from my parents.

The school’s demographic was 100 percent African American. All of my teachers were African American. No one threw chairs, ran down the hallways yelling, cursed at the teachers, and especially did not hit any teachers. There was a very small percentage of kids who didn’t follow the rules. The ones who were