Teaching Isn’t for Cowards will serve as a handbook for surviving the classroom experience and meeting the demands of being a counselor and administrator. Dr. Rheba Washington-Lindsey’s teaching career has been shared with students from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds, as well as diverse grade levels; she has taught elementary, middle school, and high school. This book includes real-life stories and personal memoirs that will warm your heart and encourage any educator. They provide insight into the trials, tribulations, and victories of the author, alongside strategies for solving those trials. It is filled with insight and words of wisdom.

Educators will be reminded of their commitment and encouraged to stay true to their calling–the power they have to effect change in other people’s children. There are strategies for how to communicate effectively with parents and administrators, and how to identify the characteristics of indispensable teachers, as well as how to handle various discipline problems and more. In the end, educators will realize personal and professional growth and that change will affect student academic success. Thousands of students’ lives have been touched as a result of the author’s tough love, dedication, and her belief that every child can learn.

Teaching Isn't For Cowards provides teachers with researched current practices that will strenthen their instruction and improve learning. It provides teachers with strategies that will provide high-quality instruction inspite of the various daily challenges they face: large classes, classroom management, discipline problems, mastering the curriculum, and communicating with parents and administrators.

New teachers to the profession will be given strategies that help them create, maintain, and alter instruction to capture and sustain the interest of their students so that student learning is acquired. They are given tools for developing high-quality instructional practices and methods on how to offer each student the opportunity to succeed. New teachers will become knowledgeable on how to engage groups of students to ensure that the environment is disciplined and well-managed. Teachers will be able to access new enriching ways to measure student learning. They will know how to employ multiple methods for assessing student growth and understanding. This book provides new teachers with a realistic view of the classroom, giving them strategies for surviving in the classroom.

Teaching Isn't For Cowards is grounded not only in the field of research but also on personal experience.