Table of Contents

Preface
About the Author
The Art of Teaching
Assessment
Back-to-School Night
Books
Calculators
Career Path
Cheating
Class Management
Classroom Talk
Colleagues
Computers
Confidence
Contests
Cooperative Learning
Curriculum
Discipline
Einstein Points
Field Trips
First Day of School
First Week of School
Games
Getting Along
Getting Out More
Grades
Guest Speakers
Homework
How to Become Hated
Improvise
Individual Needs
Jobs in the Classroom
Knowledge
Last Days of School
Learning Is a Process
Lesson Plans
Lies
Making Yourself Accessible
Media
Mentoring
Mistakes
Modeling
Movies About Teachers
New Students
New Stuff and Neat Stuff
New Teacher
Nonverbal Communication
Openers
Organizing for Success
Parents
Photocopying
Pizzazz
Portfolios
Power in the Classroom
Principals
Principles
Quotations in the Classroom
Recognizing Students
Respect
Room Environment
Rules
School Reform
Special Education
Staff Meetings
Standards
Substitute Teachers
Support Personnel
Talking to Parents
Talking to Students
Teacher Evaluation
Teaching: A Look Back
Teaching Teachers to Teach
Team Teaching
Tests
Textbooks
"That′s a Shame!"
"This Is Boring!" and Other Ego Traps
Timing
Units of Study
Veterans and Rookies
Videos in the Classroom
Why You Should Not Teach
Why You Should Teach
Zeal
Index

Reviews

"I re-read this book every summer to help me maintain a balanced perspective as I plan for a new school year." 
*Gary Tsuruda, Math teacher *

"Teaching Is an Art can help new teachers adjust more smoothly into the education profession and can provide new ideas and insights for veteran teachers." 
*John Thompson, Assistant Principal*

Where was this book when I was teaching? I’m going to show or tell every teacher I know about this book. I wish Leon Spreyer could win teacher of the millennium award (and I mean this new millennium not the last one)!"
*Barbara Piano*

"Spreyer’s experiences with students and colleagues form the core of the book. It includes humor, quotations, poetry, samples, and examples for practitioners to try within their classrooms."
*Harriett Arnold*

"[It] is a practical and informative guide which is accessibly arranged . . . a very highly recommended supplemental resource for art educators of all experience, skill, and grade levels."
*Midwest Book Review′s Library Bookwatch, March 2003*