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# Letters to a New Teacher: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead

**Brand:** jim burke
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- **What is this?** Letters to a New Teacher: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead by jim burke
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## Customer Reviews

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    For EVERY Teacher, New and Experienced!
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2009*

I'll be honest.  I bought this book because it looked interesting, and I needed a couple of dollars to get to the "free shipping" $25.  In the end, this is the book from that order that I have not been able to put down.  It provides invaluable insight into teaching, education, and the system.  Not so much a "guide" to teaching, more of a catalyst to reflect, inspire, and think.  This book should be on every English Student-Teacher's required reading, and is strongly recommended for the rest of us!

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wasn't what I expected
  

*by K***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014*

I bought this book for myself. It wasn't quite what I expected. I was surprised by the simplicity of some of the questions asked by the new teacher and how Burke would spend three pages talking about his incredible mentors and not answering her very basic question.

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    Keep This At Your Side
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2006*

I met Jim Burke five years ago when I purchased his book The English Teacher's Companion.  It remains an invaluable source in my practice.  Since then, I have added each one of Mr. Burke's books to my collection and have always found relevant and concrete information that I can take into my classroom the next day or use over the course of a unit.  Jim Burke's Letters to a New Teacher is the next best thing to having Jim Burke in the room next door.In the book, coauthored with Joy Krajicek, Mr. Burke allays the fears of a first year teacher who seeks advice on a range of topics-from classroom discipline to teaching writing to creating a unit.  Each response, written in a convivial style, offers concrete solutions to Joy's problems and has already proved beneficial to me in the middle of my sixth year teaching.  When creating a unit, for example, Burke offers several specific suggestions that will allow the teacher to create steps that assure student success.  When teaching writing, this book has helped me to see that not only is learning to write is a process, but also learning to teach writing is as much of a process.  Perhaps the most valuable lesson I learned from this book is that it helped to reaffirm for me that accepting the calling of being a teacher means accepting an eternal process of learning.  There never will be an end, per se, only a deepening.Burke includes several poems in his responses to Joy.  Each one helped me to rethink what ideas I have about the teaching profession, about my students and about the ideas I have for my classroom.  I strongly recommend teachers add this title to their collection.  The letters in it will only help to reach for the excellence in ourselves that we demand of our students.

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