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Ellen Kronowitz is a consultant for school districts as well as a professor at California State University, San Bernardino where she has co-founded the university demonstration school and worked with student teachers and interns and taught courses in curriculum and social studies methods. She was granted Emeritus status in June 2004. Ellen has authored The Substitute Teacher's Guide to Success, Your First Year of Teaching and Beyond, now in its 4 th edition, poetry and social studies resource books for teachers, and early literacy book as part of a series. She also enjoys horseback riding and skiing.

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A blueprint for effective teaching, brimming with thoughtful and realistic advice, The Teacher’s Guide to Success provides a practical approach to teaching through tried and true experience-based suggestions and research-based strategies. 

Organized into eight topical units that address the everyday needs, concerns, and realities of today’s educators, teachers are guided from the very first day to the end of the school year.  From organizing the physical classroom to mapping out a differentiated curriculum, the challenges of teaching are identified and streamlined.  The companion website is packed with engaging examples from real live classrooms, advice from leading authorities in education, and helpful additional resources for your first year teaching.  A resource you will never want to leave at home, this book reveals the ins and outs of teaching effectively in today’s classrooms.

Why you’ll love using The Teacher’s Guide to Success! 

• With an authority gleaned from her years of classroom teaching experience and working with future teachers at California State University, San Bernardino, Dr. Kronowitz writes in a style that leaves all teachers feeling as though she is in the classroom with them. 
• Checklists summarize key points and provide beginning and experienced teachers with a ready-made list of reminders that will help make their teaching days efficient and effective.
• “Teacher Talks…” and “Student Says…” features illuminate the content with anecdotes or guidance from current teachers and student perspectives throughout.
• “Classroom Artifacts” features provide sample lessons that incorporate concepts and techniques presented in the book.
• “Apply It!” features encourage readers to apply and adapt concepts and strategies to their own situations.
• “Myth Buster!” features take common perceptions and misconceptions about teaching, and explore their realities.

“The key strengths of this project are its comprehensiveness and the integration of ideas borne from research into ideas about practice.  I found this book to be a very thorough introduction to the entire first year of teaching and beyond…”

--Kristal Curry, Indiana University: Bloomington

“The author’s experience and knowledge comes through on every page.”