Notes From a Cool Teacher

About the Book

Notes from a Cool Teacher is essentially a how-to book. It will show you how being considered cool in the classroom can make you a more effective, dynamic teacher, particularly in the area of classroom management.

The word cool is ignored and grossly underrated by teachers and those in education-but not, and it's a big not, by the students.

All of us can remember a cool teacher in our past who not only instructed but also was inspirational. That teacher was rebellious, sensitive, and caring; they made us want to pay attention with their fresh approach to teaching, and in return, we respected them and took to heart what was taught.

Edward Janusz provides a new perspective regarding classroom management. Notes From a Cool Teacher is not an academic and administrative-friendly-the typical principal would hardly approve. It does not diminish or deny the distress student misconduct has on sinking, burnt-out teachers. Nor does it simply propose exclusively raising a student's self-esteem as a path to good behavior.

This book is an underground text, written from one teacher to another, providing controversial, aggressive, results-orientated strategies to achieve classroom control.

About the Author

Edward Janusz has taught Language Arts in the secondary level for a number of years. He also teaches jazz guitar to more than thirty students a week. He has recently moved to Pennsylvania where he resides with his wife Cida and three children: Winston, Lorrayne , and Lucy. He has also written two novels and a play.