Teaching from the deep end : succeeding with today's classroom challenges / Dominic Belmonte ; foreword by William Ayers.

The teaching profession: what are you doing and why are you doing it?
The classroom: where teacher's path and student's path converge
The teacher's words: you can heal and you can harm
The teaching persona: who you are when you're standing up there at the big desk
The paperwork can kill you
Your educational philosophy: creating your teaching tenets
Classroom ethics: 68 what-if's that will make any teacher say "yikes!"
Major stresses in the teaching profession: why you must remain a teacher
Reflective writing exercises for new and veteran teachers
Creating programs for teacher preparation: the programs of the Golden Apple Foundation in illinois.