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The Most Dog-Eared "Teacher's Edition" You'll Have in Your Classroom
Teaching is tough. And teachers, like the rest of the population, aren't perfect. Yet good teaching happens, and great teachers continue to inspire and educate generations of students. See Me After Class helps those great teachers of the future to survive the classroom long enough to become great.
Fueled by hundreds of hilarious—and sometimes shocking—tales
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Not your typical how-to manual for new teachers, this jargon-free guide offers a wide variety of tools and tactics for getting through every school day with grace and sanity. Covered in glue, glitter, orange juice -- or worse? Make a quick change into the spare set of clothes you keep on hand for just this purpose. Butterflies in your stomach before your first-ever Meet the Teacher Night? Keep your cool by writing the agenda on your board --...
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Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014's Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what he's talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won't Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its
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"Many traditional teaching practices are no longer as applicable as they once were. The emergence of new technologies and a constantly changing societal landscape have altered the needs of students, therefore changing the practices educators use to teach them. Only does this mean that pre-service and new educators need to think on their toes during their first few years, but it also means that veteran educators must adapt to what education looks like...
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Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start. With help from veteran teacher and mentor Gini Cunningham, inexperienced teachers can better understand and successfully tackle the many daily challenges they will face in the classroom:
*Setting up classroom procedures and managing class time
*Coordinating standards, curriculum, and...
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Becoming a new teacher is one of the most fun, exciting, and challenging experiences you'll encounter in your life. Who wouldn't want a little help getting ready before sitting down behind the teacher's desk for the first time? That's where First-Year Teaching For Dummies comes in. You'll find easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to help you navigate the politics of education in your community, develop fun and fulfilling relationships with your...
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"This is a 5th edition of a bestselling book written for new teachers. Our goal is to create a shorter book that still feels comprehensive and accessible. 25% of the content will be cut or replaced with new content and the rest will be updated with modern strategies and tools"-- Provided by publisher.
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The first year in the career of a special education teacher is filled with expectation and promise. Addressing the most common needs of beginning special education teachers, The Exceptional Teacher's Handbook helps new educators move confidently from preplanning to post-planning for the entire school year.
The authors present a step-by-step management approach complete with planning checklists and other ready-to-use forms within the context of IDEA...
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Packed with insider tips, practical strategies, and time-tested advice, this invaluable guide is designed for new and preservice educators. Offering a wide range of perspectives, authors Ellen Kottler and Nancy P. Gallavan cover the essential topics that novice teachers encounter, including establishing routines and classroom rules, planning instruction and assessment techniques, networking with colleagues, navigating school policies and procedures,...
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Sound advice from award-winning college faculty.
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Annotation Nearly half of all novices abandon the profession in their first seven years. To lower the dropout rate, this book from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) examines why beginning teachers struggle and how research-based strategies can help them thrive. Among the highlights: detailed advice on setting up Beginning Teacher Assistance Programs, which use mentors and support teams to boost skills, morale, and potential....
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Mary Presson Roberts remembers her first year of teaching fourteen years ago and the less than positive experience she had to overcome as she struggled alone to become the dedicated and excellent teacher she is today. Your Mentor: A Practical Guide for First-Year Teachers in Grades 1-3 is Roberts' way of making sure other new teachers have the support they need when they need it. This practical, easy-to-implement guide was developed by surveying student...
14) A survival guide for new faculty members: outlining the keys to success for promotion and tenure
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"A Survival Guide for New Faculty Members: Outlining the Keys to Success for Promotion and Tenure provides new faculty members with practical, down-to-earth wisdom and suggestions for successfully working through to tenure and promotion. The authors, both successful and experienced administrators and experts in higher education, have provided an extremely well-organized and useful guide for new faculty members. It focuses on all aspects of becoming...
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Sprinkled throughout Rise and Shine is candid advice from seasoned science teachers who offer both useful strategies and warm reassurance. Rise and Shine is designed to help preservice teachers, those in the first few years of teaching (regardless of grade level), and those who may be entering a new situation within the teaching field. If you need a mentor?or if you are a mentor or instructor who wants to support beginning science teachers?this book...
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New teachers have a high attrition rate, often due to concerns about classroom discipline, interactions with parents, meeting the diverse needs of students, and pressures of high academic standards. Teaching Is a Privilege offers beginning teacherstwelve essential understandings necessary to meet these challenges and thrive in the classroom. The understandings are based on a core belief that teaching is a privilege worthy of continuous, thoughtful...
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Imagination and praxis volume 12
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Dominant conceptions in the field of education position teacher development and teaching as linear, cause and effect transactions completed by teachers as isolated, autonomous actors. Yet rhizomatics, an emergent non-linear philosophy created by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, offers a perspective that counters these assumptions that reduce the complexity of classroom activity and phenomena. In Becoming-Teacher: A Rhizomatic Look at First-Year...
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In summer of 2000, legal secretary Donna Moffett answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented professionals" from other fields to teach in some of the city's worst schools. Seven weeks later she was in a first-grade classroom in Flatbush, Brooklyn, nearly completely unprepared for what she was about to face.
New York Times education reporter Abby Goodnough followed Donna Moffett through her first...
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With everything from answers to frequent new-teacher questions and warnings of common new teacher pitfalls to specific strategies and veteran tricks useful for clawing back precious hours of the day, Matthew Johnson gives clear tips and clear reasons for them in a straightforward, jargonless voice and a mixture of practicality and philosophy.
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"The transition from graduate studies to teaching is full of challenges. In this concise, practical guide for the aspiring professor, Michael Kibbe offers plenty of personal examples and tested advice as he covers preparation for teaching, best practices in the classroom, self-evaluation, and the discovery of your mission and method"-- Provided by publisher.
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