The First Weeks of School: Laying a Quality Foundation

by Louise Burrell and Jane Perlmutter

The first weeks of school lay the foundation for the whole school year. The more attention you pay early on to the concepts of community, character, and quality, the more time and effort you'll be spared later. This is one of the first steps to creating a caring, smoothly run classroom community. It's also one of the primary lessons of this inspirational book.

This is the story of Louise Burrellas observed by teacher educator Jane Perlmutterand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325003394
• ISBN13: 9780325003399
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The example to follow I wish I had when I began teaching

Louise Burrell is the perfect exanple for every teacher to follow. Then we would not have had the teachers so many of us have had and (in some cases) have become. For this is a Student-Centered Teacher - caring, compassionate, disciplined, but open to learning, not only to that of her students, but to her own learning as well. I think what I like best about the book and Ms. Burrell is her excitement about teaching. It never became a dull, regimented thing with her. All that high exultation of that first year of teaching remained with her to the end. Imagine that! Thank you, Ms. Burrell, for your example. Where were you in 1967, when it all began with me in front of a class? But it worked out. We've got your book now. And what a hope and what a treasure it is for the rest of us!