The teaching profession: what are you doing and why are you doing it? -- The classroom: where teacher's path and student's path converge -- The teacher's words: you can heal and you can harm -- The teaching persona: who you are when you're standing up there at the big desk -- The paperwork can kill you -- Your educational philosophy: creating your teaching tenets -- Classroom ethics: 68 what-if's that will make any teacher say "yikes!" -- Major stresses in the teaching profession: why you must remain a teacher -- Reflective writing exercises for new and veteran teachers -- Creating programs for teacher preparation: the programs of the Golden Apple Foundation in illinois.