Throughout the country, a growing number of college students, recent college graduates, and mid-career adults are thinking about becoming teachers. Teaching in middle and high schools combines a lifelong pursuit of learning, a long-held dream of joining a field that they respect, a chance to work with young people, and an opportunity to make a difference in society. The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher offers a step-by-step guide to preparation, certification, and employment as a teacher. It provides guidance about issues and choices facing prospective educators, including making the decision to teach, assessing the differences between middle schools and high schools, identifying an excellent teacher education program, understanding alternative pathways to certification, taking state-mandated teacher tests, succeeding as a student teacher, and finding a first job in the profession. A complete state-by-state listing of programs, including current U.S. News & World Report Top Fifty rankings and certification requirements rounds out this valuable guide.

Reading and writing are the most important things a student learns in school. An issue that gets in the way of teaching kids how to read and write are the insufferable, numerous, and bloated standards in English instruction. Teachers must pore over the minutia and sometimes forget to teach the love of language and its power to weave life-changing narratives. This work weaves an interesting combination of practices, pedagogy, and child psychology to make a survival guide for teachers. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to increase the quantity and quality of reading and writing in their classroom. Do you want your students or children to write more? Do you want your children to learn to love the English language? Do you need suggestions on how to do that?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you.50 Things to Know About Being a Middle School English Teacher by author Dwayne Vega offers an approach to adjusting your English classroom. Most books on language arts instruction tell you to adopt theoretical and unproven suggestions. There's nothing wrong with that. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, we can do better in our classroom with practical practices. In these pages you'll discover how to get your students or children to view writing more positively. This book will help you understand what is going on with middle school students and help you craft lessons to address those changes. By the time you finish this book, you will know how to teach reading and writing to middle school children. So, grab YOUR copy today. You'll be glad you did.

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Taking prospective teachers step-by-step through the entire preparation process, Kaplan PRAXIS 2007 Edition offers: 2 full-length PPST practice tests, 1 full-length PLT test and 3 Elementary Educations tests. In-depth review for PRAXIS I and II, including the Pre- Professional Skills Test (PPST), Multiple Subjects Assessment for Teachers (MSAT), Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT), and Elementary Education tests Effective score-raising strategies. Question banks for English, Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies.