Ten Things New Teachers Need To Succeed

"What are 10 things that help new teachers get off to a good start? How can new educators excel in this complex, demanding, and ultimately rewarding profession? These answers, along with high-impact strategies, can be found in this must-have resource." -back cover.

Help ensure your teaching success with these powerful professional tools! In a quick-reference format, this second edition offers 10 high-impact strategies to help new and experienced instructors succeed in the classroom. The author has organized topics to give teachers the option of studying and growing together by discussing and applying one chapter each month. Updated throughout, this easy-to-use resource recommends ways to connect with a mentor and offers readings, related film clips, discussion questions, and action steps for successful: Curriculum and lesson design Assessment and rubrics construction Discipline and classroom management Communication with parents, and more

The coverage is complete, ranging from finding a mentor to working with parents. The book is meant to be short and sweet, and it is." —Lori L. Grossman, Instructional Coordinator Houston Independent School District, TX "Describes ten basic, practical tenets for finding one′s way in the classroom. The book makes a distinct contribution by presenting the ten tenets in a very brief, readable format." —Mary Alice Barksdale, Associate Professor Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "This book contains an introduction to key, practical tips for teaching success." —Rodger J. Beatty, Associate Dean, Faculty of Education Brock University Help ensure your teaching success with these powerful professional tools! What kind of professional support is most critical for getting new teachers off to a good start in the classroom? How can veteran teachers elevate and energize their instructional techniques? In this second edition of Ten Things Teachers Need to Succeed, international educator Robin Fogarty distills a wealth of teaching and consulting experience into ten high-impact strategies to help novice and experienced instructors succeed and thrive. Updated throughout, this easy-to-use resource recommends ways to connect with a mentor and offers readings, related film clips, discussion questions, and action steps for successful: Curriculum and lesson design Assessment and rubrics construction Discipline and classroom management Communication with parents, and more This guidebook′s unique format also makes it an ideal professional development tool to help teams of new and experienced teachers grow together by discussing and applying one chapter each month.

"This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher." Harry K. Wong, Author The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher Take

This valuable guide offers a wealth of strategies for designing, presenting, and facilitating professional development with follow-up coaching that meets the unique needs of adult learners.

While considerable evidence indicates that school leaders are able to make important contributions to the success of their students, much less is known about how such contributions are made. This book provides a comprehensive account of research aimed at filling this gap in our knowledge, along with guidelines about how school leaders might use this knowledge for their own school improvement work. Leadership practices known to be effective for improving student success are outlined in the first section of the book while the remaining sections identify four “paths” along which the influence of those practices “flow” to exercise an influence on student success. Each of the Rational, Emotional, Organizational and Family paths are populated by conditions or variables known to have relatively direct effects on student success and also open to influence by effective leadership practices. While the Four Path framework narrows the attention of school leaders to a still-considerable number conditions known to contribute to student success, it leaves school leaders the autonomy to select, for improvement efforts, the sub-set of conditions that make the most sense in their own local circumstances. The approach to leadership described in this book provides evidence-based guidance on what to lead and flexibility on how to lead for purposes of improving student learning.

The versatile and practical handbook to promote students′ literacy and learning! Scores of children across the country do not read with comprehension, and literacy has become a national priority. In Literacy Matters, internationally recognized author, educational coach, and consultant Robin Fogarty defines and reviews 15 practical literacy approaches that teachers can use across all content areas and grade levels to help students develop essential literacy skills. This user-friendly resource provides strategies for immediate implementation with an overview of the research and best practices associated with each strategy. With an easy-to-use menu that enables teachers to select the specific strategies they want to use to boost content-area literacy and comprehension, this valuable guide explores proven instructional methods such as Teaching metacognitive student thinking Creating literature circles Involving parents and community Tapping into prior knowledge Using technology to impact literacy acquisition Put these strategies to use in your classroom, and watch as your students improve their reading and comprehension, and apply these tools for success across content areas and in their lives!