Organizing literacy classrooms for effective instruction: A survival guide

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

The Reading Teacher

Volume

65

Issue

2

Publication Date

2011

First Page

93

Last Page

105

Abstract

Classroom teachers are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are passionate and committed individuals who truly want to make a difference in the lives of their students. Many novice teachers enter the field of teaching with wide-eyed optimism, only to have their idealism dashed upon the cold, wet rocky shoreline of classroom management and organizational realities. A good many novice teachers, especially the highly academically qualified, leave the profession within the first five years for a variety of reasons, but one is most certainly unresolved concerns and struggles in organizing and managing a classroom (Borman & Dowling, 2008; Morrow, Reutzel, & Casey, 2006).

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