1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets

Secrets for your first year and beyond Experienced educators Kathleen Brenny and Kandace Martin show you how to: --Effectively organize your classroom --34 secrets to surviving your first week --Prepare your students for standardized tests --Document progress and grading --Work effectively with ESL students --Understand the legal requirements of working with students with special needs --Survive parent-teacher conferences --Manage stress and stay healthy --Create a safe school environment for your students Covers important issues across all grade levels

A one-stop resource for all your first-year teaching needs! With tips for everything from establishing an ideal classroom environment to making it through teacher evaluations, this practical volume helps you plan ahead with confidence, keep your perspective, and prepare for the unexpected. Written in a conversational tone, this completely revised edition introduces techniques by grade level, includes an expanded section on Internet use, and provides field-tested strategies on how to: Encourage student participation and critical thinking Establish fair grading practices Modify instructional methods and curriculum for students with special needs Increase parent involvement Manage stress and maintain sanity

Teaching is a highly rewarding—and highly demanding—profession. Honoring educators for the invaluable work they do, this unique resource provides critical information about being a highly competent teacher while living a rewarding, satisfying life outside of work. New and experienced teachers will find a unique collection of strategies for developing essential skills for being masterful in teaching and in life. Focused on preparation and effective teaching techniques, this nuts-and-bolts volume helps teachers find the right balance between personal and professional priorities and covers a wide range of topics, such as: •Increasing their teaching effectiveness •Improving their ability to collaborate with others •Developing self-care strategies for a vibrant personal and professional life Featuring “bottom line” tips, reproducibles for teacher reflection and support, and up-to-date resources, Teach Well, Live Well is an essential tool for educators looking to enjoy vibrant, productive careers and lives.

Speaking from years of experience, author Franklin Schargel provides 152 field-tested ideas about working with at-risk students. Designed to be read and implemented quickly, these are concise snapshots of what educators can do to keep students from dropping out. You can apply these practical tips in your classroom today. The 152 tips are divided into four sections.

The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.

You are about to embark on a great adventure - entering a privileged career that is exciting, uplifting, overwhelming and terrifying (not necessarily in this order; occasionally all at once). Teaching is hard work, but it's never dull. Who couldn't love a day that might include short division, the long jump, map reading, letter writing, roaming Daleks, and Roald Dahl? As a new teacher you will be expected to be prepared for anything, be on top of everything, and have a knowledge-base to rival the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Drawn from over twenty years of classroom experience, this Survival A-Z is an invaluable collection of hints and tips designed to aid the smooth running of a positive classroom environment. It will help you to hit the ground running and focus on what's really important: the children. Covering topics such as Learning Objectives, Parental Involvement, Show and Tell, and Curse words in the Classroom, it also details critical techniques around Risk Assessments, Arm Folding, "I know you are, you said you are..." and Echoing. This amusing, well-written, and to-the-point book covers more than 130 areas and themes to give you the head start you need!