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Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success: What Every Teacher Should Know about (Pearson)

Autor Richard D. Kellough
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2008
"Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success" is a collection of strategies on how to succeed and thrive during your first year of teaching. This brief, practical text presents guidelines on how to manage your first day, differentiate instruction, cope with high-stakes testing, deal with parents and colleagues, set a homework policy, manage disruptive behavior, and other challenges. This is a book you should keep close at hand for a year that promises to be both challenging and exhilarating."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780137149438
ISBN-10: 0137149433
Pagini: 110
Dimensiuni: 151 x 224 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Pearson
Seria What Every Teacher Should Know about (Pearson)

Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States

Descriere

This brief, practical text contains a collection of strategies on how to succeed and thrive during your first year of teaching.  It presents guidelines on how to manage your first day, differentiate instruction, cope with high-stakes testing, deal with parents and colleagues, set a homework policy, manage disruptive behavior, and other challenges.  This is a book you should keep close at hand for a year that promises to be both challenging and exhilarating.

Cuprins

Prologue.
Accommodating Student Differences: Recognizing and Working with Specific Learners
Attaining Credibility with Students: Teacher Attitude and Modeling Behaviors.
 
Beyond Teaching: A Teacher Is Interesting Because the Teacher Has a Life Outside of School.
 
Colleagues, Administrators, and Support Staff: Your Professional Network.
Curriculum Matters and Concerns.
 
Decision-Making and Locus of Control: No One Knowledgeable Ever Said That Good Teaching Is Easy, But It Is Fun and Intrinsically Rewarding.
Differentiating the Instruction: Ensuring that No Child Is Left Behind.
Discipline: Fear of Losing Classroom Control Is a Major Concern of Many Beginning Teachers.
 
Equality in the Classroom: Ensuring a Psychologically Safe and Supportive Learning Environment.
 
Field Trip: Planning for Success
First Day: Your One Opportunity to Make An Initial Impression.
 
Guest Speaker: Making It a Successful Learning Experience.
 
High Energy Days and the Disruption of Routine: Kids Are Human, Too.
High Stakes Testing: Checking That No Student is Left Behind.
Internet: Valuable Resource for Enhancing Teaching and Student Learning.
 
Job Satisfaction: A Two-Way Street.
 
Makeup Work: Be Firm But Understanding.
Media: If Anything Can Go Wrong, It Probably Will!
Memorizing: Sometimes It’s Necessary.
Motivational Ideas: Build Your Repertoire.
 
PaperWork: How to Avoid Becoming Buried Under Mounds of It.
Parent and Guardian Contacts and Involvement: Leaving No Parent/Guardian Behind
Politics at School: Best to Avoid.
Professional Organizations: Join One.
Protecting Students and Yourself: Liability, Safety, and Security Matters.
 
Records: Organization is Important to Success
Reliability: A Good Teacher Is a Dependable Person.
 
Salary: Not Great But Regular.
Sense of Humor, an Intelligent Behavior: Please Smile and Do So Long Before Christmas.
Student Achievement: The Extremely Important and Time-Intensive Responsibilities of Assessing, Grading, and Reporting.
Student Learning: When Children Do Not Learn the Way We Teach Them, Then We Must Teach Them the Way They Learn.
Subject Knowledge: Fountainhead of Information or an Educational Broker?
Supplies and Textbooks: Seldom Ideal, Sometimes Inadequate.
 
Teachable Moments: Be Ready to Recognize, to Catch and to Run with Them
Teacher’s Lounge: Enter with Caution.
Total School: Enter with Enthusiasm.
Transitions During Lessons: A Difficult Skill to Master.
 
Your Place of Work: Please Show Pride in It.
Your First Observation by the Principal.
Your Professional Portfolio and Personal Records of Your Work.
 
Epilogue.
References and Recommended Readings
Glossary.
Name and Subject Index.

Caracteristici

  • Alternate order of contents-provided for use of the book in a preservice methods course.
  • New! Expansion of the first major topic of the book, "Accommodating Student Differences: Recognizing and Working with Specific Learners"-provides extensive, useful, and specific guidelines for working with students with special needs, students of diversity and differences, students who take more time than others but are willing to continually try, and recalcitrant learners.
  • NEW! Additional boxed scenarios titled "Teaching in Practice"-provide readers with stories and examples from the classroom dealing with games, blogs and changes in classroom atmosphere.
  • NEW! "Teachable Moments"-provide examples of real-life scenarios and give teachers lessons in handling those scenarios as they occur.
  • Numerous classroom-oriented feature figures-for example, the Ten Most-Challenged Books in 2006, Sample Course Syllabus, and About Class Interruptions--augment text coverage with ideas for dodging the pitfalls of the first year.  These serve as a “leg up” for future teachers when they arrive in their first classroom.
  • Authentically-written vignettes-three Classroom Vignettes and one Teaching Vignette-demonstrate text-sanctioned techniques and strategies at work in real classrooms with real pupils.  These give readers a glimpse of what actual classroom teaching is all about.
  • Two dedicated sections on the Internet-Sample Internet Resources for Teachers and Internet Sites for Teaching Ideas-teach students to use this powerful resource to make the most of their classroom time and help them learn how to assess an Internet site’s reliability, integrity, and value for instruction with specific pupils in specific situations.
  • NEW! Topics-Including field trips, physical education, and value differences

Caracteristici noi

  • Expansion of the first major topic of the book, "Accommodating Student Differences: Recognizing and Working with Specific Learners"-provides extensive, useful, and specific guidelines for working with students with special needs, students of diversity and differences, students who take more time than others but are willing to continually try, and recalcitrant learners.
  • Additional "Teaching in Practice" features - grab readers' attention and provide useful teaching ideas to take into the classroom.
  • Addition of new topic, "Teachable Moments"-provides examples of real-life scenarios and gives teachers lessons in handling those scenarios as they occur.
  • NEW Topics-Including field trips, physical education, and value differences
  • Many, many more Motivational Ideas