| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| She Really Is a Good Kid: student cheating | p. 1 |
| The Observation: teacher's observation by administrator | p. 4 |
| Reorganizing a Classroom: inclusion | p. 7 |
| Teachers vs. Administration: contract negotiations | p. 10 |
| The Noisy Classroom: dealing with an ineffective colleague | p. 13 |
| To Retain or Not to Retain: keeping a student at grade level | p. 16 |
| A Mixed Blessing: a difficult teacher aide | p. 19 |
| Do I Want to Make This Boy Ineligible? academic eligibility | p. 22 |
| The Name Is Mr. Cole: a young teacher's relationship with students | p. 25 |
| How Can I Make a Difference? motivating nonacademic students | p. 28 |
| The Halloween Party: entertaining students in your home | p. 31 |
| The Secret: working with a troubled student | p. 34 |
| I Don't Want One: computers in the classroom | p. 37 |
| She Just Doesn't Support Teachers: an uprising against the principal | p. 41 |
| It's the Truth!: advising the school newspaper | p. 45 |
| It Just Costs Too Much: a teacher spending her own money on supplies | p. 48 |
| A Debate over Reorganizing Classes: block scheduling | p. 52 |
| A Combat Zone: whole language versus phonics | p. 56 |
| The Angry Parent: teachers criticized by parents | p. 60 |
| Transforming Education: the educational reform movement | p. 63 |
| Do They Really Mean It? teachers threatened by students | p. 67 |
| Are They Really Serious? music and art program reductions | p. 70 |
| It's Just Too Much!: teachers overburdened by paperwork | p. 74 |
| Can't We Find a Compromise? conflict over a social studies curriculum | p. 78 |
| To Refer or Not to Refer: dealing with an A.D.D. student | p. 82 |
| We Just Want to Do It Our Way: the dilemma of student teachers | p. 85 |
| What Should We Be Teaching? foreign-language class curriculum | p. 89 |
| Whatever We Do, Let's Make It Worthwhile: in-service programs | p. 93 |
| Would You Just Talk to Them? students with serious personal problems | p. 97 |
| Just Throw Out the Ball!: an appropriate physical education curriculum | p. 100 |
| I Didn't Know What to Say!: religion in the classroom | p. 104 |
| The Reference Form: writing a recommendation for a student teacher | p. 108 |
| Why Do I Have to Grade Them? grading in art classes | p. 112 |
| It's a Very Good Offer: teacher with an opportunity in an affluent district | p. 115 |
| I Just Don't Know What Is Right!: a teacher's private life | p. 119 |
| What Do I Say to the Class? dealing with death | p. 124 |
| Somebody Is Going to Get Hurt: corporal punishment | p. 129 |
| The New Student: troubled student joining an established class | p. 132 |
| About the Author | p. 136 |
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