In TheClassroom Troubleshooter: Strategies for Dealing with Marking and Paperwork, Discipline, Evaluation, and Learning through Language, author Les Parsons provides practical, no-nonsense solutions to the problems that plague a teacher's day. This handy, easy-to-use guide incorporates a number of invaluable rubrics, checklists, templates, reference sheets, questionnaires, and student guidelines.



Included are strategies to help teachers
Avoid being overwhelmed by paperwork and other types of "administrivia"
Mark "smart"
Anticipate, prevent, respond to, and manage a host of discipline problems
Develop and administer evaluation instruments for projects, research, essays, and objective-style tests
Increase student comprehension of textbooks
Implement and mark journal writing
Guide talk-based learning
Reflect on how individual teachers can impact on the overall functioning of the school

The Classroom Troubleshooter empowers teachers to control their environment and to reclaim time and energy so that their gifts and skills can be directed into teaching and learning with their students.