Everything a New Elementary School Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn''t Learn in College)

About Otis Kriegel

Otis Kriegel is a seventeen-year veteran teacher having taught in dual language (Spanish/English and German/English) monolingual and integrated co-teaching (ICT) classrooms in the public schools of Los Angeles San Francisco New York City and Berlin Germany. For the past three years he taught at the JFK School in Berlin where he also developed a teacher coaching program. He received his M.S.Ed. in bilingual education from the Bank Street College of Education and has taught at the Steinhardt School at New York University. Otis has also been a guest lecturer at the Bank Street College of Education City College of New York and Touro College. He created the workshop How to Survive Your First Years Teaching & Have a Life which was the impetus for his book. An experienced presenter Otis has conducted this workshop with hundreds of preservice and new teachers and continues to present in universities and teacher education programs. Otis lives in New York City.