This cookbook contains recipes for becoming a successful teacher, with each recipe representing an important quality or skill. The recipes include accommodating multiple learning styles, maintaining classroom organization with routines and rules, building relationships through respect and trust, developing confidence through positivity, employing consistent discipline, accepting students' individual beliefs, practicing patience through understanding and a positive outlook, collaborating with other teachers, delivering a well-rounded curriculum, and bringing all these ingredients together to be an effective teacher. The introduction explains that students are like unique herbs and spices that together create a great recipe for success when a teacher incorporates their various strengths.