A Fable About Classroom Management, Student Behavior, and Finding Balance as a New Teacher
If you’ve ever sat in your car after school, too exhausted to drive home, wondering if you're cut out for teaching—this story is for you.
Cassie Matthews is drowning. Like 44% of new educators, she is on the brink of becoming a statistic, another casualty of the teacher burnout crisis. Crushed by the weight of uncontrollable classroom chaos, defiant behaviour, and a relentless workload, her initial spark is being extinguished by the daily battle for survival. She is tired, overwhelmed, and out of options.
She doesn't need a 400-page textbook. She needs answers she can use on Monday.
In this powerful teaching parable, you will join Cassie as she uncovers the Four Pillars of Teaching, a systematic framework designed to replace struggle with structure. Through her journey, you will learn the strategies that separate surviving teachers from thriving ones.
Written as a fast-paced fable you can read in a single weekend, every page delivers practical, actionable strategies—no academic jargon, no filler.
Inside The Greatest of All Teachers you will discover:
- Classroom Management: How to build unshakeable routines that make classroom chaos impossible, starting before students even enter the room.
- Behaviour for Learning: The secret to creating psychological safety, where students feel safe enough to participate, ask questions, and embrace challenges as part of learning.
- The Backwards Planning Method: How to plan smarter, not harder, and finally reclaim your evenings and weekends.
- Relationship Building: Why the "crucial moments" approach to relationship building turns your most challenging students into your biggest supporters.
More than just a roadmap, this book is a love letter to every educator who has ever struggled in silence, unsure where to turn. It proves that becoming the "Greatest of All Teachers" doesn't require innate talent, only a proven methodology and the courage to apply it.
