Corporate to Classroom A Career-Switcher's Guide to Teaching

Corporate to Classroom is designed to help new teachers, especially those entering education from the corporate arena, embrace the paradigm shift that is going to take place in their first few years of teaching. Out there in the vast community of new teachers, there are career-switchers that are wondering why they left Egypt (their last jobs), only to be miserable in the desert (their first year or so teaching). The high turnover rate suggests that many teachers lose focus of the promise land (successful educated children and a rewarding career).This book will help all new teachers maneuver through the basics such as lesson planning and classroom management strategies. More importantly, this book will discuss all of the additional challenges that come with teaching such as training, meetings, duties, relationships with coworkers/ assistants (Para-Professionals), lack of materials for their students, personal expenditures, communication, culture, and structure or the lack there of.