This heavily researched, detailed book will help first-year middle school teachers learn how to handle supplies, planning, parents, overcrowded classrooms, the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, piles of paperwork, money shortages due to budget cuts, negativity from pubescent students and other staff members, at-risk students, students who are capable but choose not to work, and special needs students. You will learn how to ask principals and administrators for help, memorize names quickly, create seating charts, write lesson plans, follow a daily routine, help struggling readers, gain respect, find a mentor, develop and implement a grading system, discipline students who feel they are more mature than they are, create assessments, find free things for teachers online, and build your confidence. The most important thing of all, you will learn how to deal with the rapidly changing emotions and hormones of new teenagers and middle school age students.