"Letters To A Young Classroom Teacher" by Dr. Gerald Rising addresses the real world of the beginning teacher's first assignment, preparing the teacher for the essence of that world. It provides the kind of advice the author wishes he had as a new teacher when he first met his student charges. For a list of other books on Amazon authored by Dr. Rising, check out the publisher's web site at www.wrparks.com In formal terms this letters book represents the advice of a highly honored classroom teacher to a beginner based on his experiences in urban, rural and suburban schools and his additional decades of work with classroom teachers. Less formally, it simply prepares you for the many unexpected features of your first year. Letters go well beyond the roles played by student teaching and studying methods texts. In student teaching the organization and discipline of the classroom is that of the sponsoring teacher. And the teaching is mid-year, not at the more difficult time of school opening. And methods texts do not prepare you for the school society to which you must accommodate. This book is modeled on E.O. Wilson's bestseller, "Letters to a Young Scientist" and George Miller's much older but still delightful "Letters from a Hard-Boiled Teacher to his Half-Baked Son."