Field guides for K-12 teachers
Teaching guides for the real classroom.
Lesson planning, classroom management, subject planning for English, Maths and Science, and the professional realities of school life — seventeen practical, classroom-tested guides written for Monday morning, not the staffroom shelf.
The Guides
Seventeen volumes · $5–$15 each · Full series $69 · Read online from $6.90/mo
The Core Series
Planning · management · worksheets · strategy
The Lesson Planning Field Guide
Plan sharper lessons in half the time — from objective to exit ticket.
5 chapters · 30 pages · $12
The Calm Classroom Handbook
Routines, scripts, and systems for a class that runs itself.
6 chapters · 22 pages · $14
The Worksheet Design Manual
Design worksheets that teach — layout, load, and question craft.
6 chapters · 24 pages · $9
The Strategy Playbook
Classroom-tested moves to make learning stick — for every grade band.
6 chapters · 23 pages · $12
Lesson Planning Library
English · Maths · Science — Grades 1–5 and 6–12
Lesson Planning: English, Grades 1–5
Phonics to paragraphs — plan reading and writing lessons young learners can actually follow.
6 chapters · 20 pages · $8
Lesson Planning: Maths, Grades 1–5
Concrete to abstract — plan maths lessons where every child does the thinking.
6 chapters · 24 pages · $8
Lesson Planning: Science, Grades 1–5
Hands-on, minds-on — plan investigations that are safe, simple, and genuinely scientific.
6 chapters · 26 pages · $7
Lesson Planning: English, Grades 6–12
From analysis to argument — plan literature and writing lessons with real intellectual weight.
6 chapters · 27 pages · $9
Lesson Planning: Maths, Grades 6–12
Procedures with understanding — plan maths lessons that survive the exam hall.
6 chapters · 24 pages · $10
Lesson Planning: Science, Grades 6–12
Practicals with purpose — plan science lessons where the theory and the bench agree.
6 chapters · 25 pages · $9
Professional Practice Series
Observations · inspections · wellbeing · career
Preparing for a Lesson Observation
A calm, systematic run-up to the observed lesson — without the midnight replan.
6 chapters · 23 pages · $12
Answering Inspection Questions
Subject-wise preparation for school inspections — answers that are honest, specific, and evidenced.
6 chapters · 23 pages · $15
Prepping Lessons After School Vacations
The restart system — relaunch routines, reactivate knowledge, and reset expectations in the first week back.
5 chapters · 20 pages · $5
Handling Teacher Burnout: UAE Edition
Realistic strategies for teachers in UAE schools — workload, climate, and the long academic year.
6 chapters · 24 pages · $10
How to Handle Subject Coordinators
Work with your coordinator productively — requests, feedback, conflict, and career growth.
6 chapters · 22 pages · $6
How to Thrive in a Subject Department
The politics, the people, and the shared resources — build a career inside your department, not around it.
6 chapters · 22 pages · $6
Managing School Expectations
For new and experienced teachers — what schools actually expect, and how to meet it without burning out.
6 chapters · 22 pages · $7
Inside every guide
01
Frameworks, not theory
Every chapter is a repeatable routine you can run tomorrow — with the reasoning kept short and the steps kept exact.
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Printable templates
Planning grids, seating charts, worksheet layouts, and retrieval starters — designed once, reused forever.
03
Word-for-word scripts
Exact lines for the moments that matter: redirection, de-escalation, first parent calls, and feedback.
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K-12 variations
Every strategy and template is adapted for early years, middle, and senior classrooms — no buying a guide that's really for one grade.
“The best classroom management system is a well-planned lesson. The best lesson plan is one you can run on four hours of sleep.”
From The Calm Classroom Handbook
About the series
The Teaching Press guides are written from thousands of classroom hours across every grade band — the strategies that survived, the systems that held up, and the templates that get used year after year.
No filler, no research summaries padded to a page count. Each guide is short, dense, and built to be read in one sitting and applied the next morning.
Meet the author
Suchitra Vijay Verma has spent more than twenty years in education — from teaching English in Dubai classrooms to leading curriculum and teacher development for the UAE Ministry of Education, where she has trained and supervised over 200 teachers.
She is a certified Cambridge International Examiner, teaches postgraduate educational leadership as Adjunct Faculty, and holds a Master's in Education in Educational Research and a Master's of Arts in English Language and Literature. She writes on teacher development and reviews articles for peer-reviewed journals, and speaks regularly on the subject, grounded in one conviction: real professional growth doesn't come from being watched — it comes from being trusted, and given the right resources to grow.
Sharing that knowledge is what drives her. Her 2024 Routledge chapter on what really works in teachers' professional development is one thread in an ongoing conversation with her community of educators — and every guide in this series continues it, turning the routines, templates, and hard-won lessons of real schools into something you can use the next morning.
20+ years in education · UAE Ministry of Education · Cambridge Examiner · Two Master's · Published author & speaker
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