The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years (Self-Care and Teaching Tips for New Teachers) - Softcover

Tina H. Boogren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945349565 ISBN 13: 9781945349560

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2018

Synopsis

The joys and pains of starting a teaching career often go undiscussed. This field guide dives deep into the personal side of teaching, offering crucial advice, empathy, and new-teacher support. The author details six phases every new or first-year teacher goes through (anticipation, survival, disillusionment, rejuvenation, reflection, and second anticipation) and outlines targeted classroom strategies, teaching tips, and self-care practices for each.

Transcend the emotional, mental, and physical problems teachers face in the classroom:

• Understand the feelings and teaching challenges of each phase during a beginning teacher's career.
• Practice self-care to combat beginning and first-year teacher stress and burnout; avoid the mental pitfalls that so often lead to teachers changing careers.
• Learn effective classroom-management strategies for new teachers and how to maintain positive relationships with students.
• Respond to prompts that will help you process and reflect on your first years' culmination.
• Utilize the prompts and journaling spaces throughout the book to reflect on your professional improvements and successes.

Contents:
Introduction: First Things First
Chapter 1: The Anticipation Phase
Chapter 2: The Survival Phase
Chapter 3: The Disillusionment Phase
Chapter 4: The Rejuvenation Phase
Chapter 5: The Reflection Phase
Chapter 6: The Second Anticipation Phase
Appendix A: End-of-the-Year Activities
Appendix B: Mementos
Epilogue: The Year in Retrospect
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author:

Tina H. Boogren is a former classroom teacher, English department chair, teacher mentor, instructional coach, professional developer, athletic coach, and building-level leader. She has presented at the school, district, state, and national levels and was a featured speaker at the International Literacy Association annual conference and Barnes & Noble's educators' nights.

Tina was a 2007 finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year and received the Douglas County School District Outstanding Teacher Award eight years in a row, from 2002 to 2009. In addition to writing articles for the National Writing Project's The Voice and The Quarterly, she authored The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide: Embarking On Your First Years; In the First Few Years: Reflections of a Beginning Teacher; and Supporting Beginning Teachers. She coauthored Motivating and Inspiring Students: Strategies to Awaken the Learner, and contributed to Middle School Teaching: A Guide to Methods and Resources and Becoming a Reflective Teacher.

Tina holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa, a master's degree with an administrative endorsement from the University of Colorado Denver, and a doctorate from the University of Denver in educational administration and policy studies.

To learn more about Tina's work, visit facebook.com/selfcareforeducators or follow @THBoogren on Twitter and Instagram.

Review:

"Tina H. Boogren's field guide provides a concrete road map not only for survival as a beginning teacher but also for excellence."

--Robert J. Marzano, PhD, cofounder and CAO of Marzano Research, Colorado

"In this book, author Tina H. Boogren graciously offers beginning teachers space to grumble, cry, and celebrate as they journey through their first years in the classroom, providing practical advice for every step along the way. The helpful tips and reflection opportunities found in this book could benefit teachers at all levels of experience. Best of all, Tina's warm, encouraging voice reminds us of the value of our noble profession and that, no matter what happens, we've 'so got this.'"

--Cristie Watson, MEd, NBCT, sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher, Gravelly Hill Middle School, North Carolina

"The teaching profession quickly becomes a journey of weaving through the complexity of the school year while hanging on to the intrinsic and unique rewards of the work. In The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide, Boogren succeeds in teaching you the wit and the wisdom to do both!"

--Tim Kanold, PhD, educator and author

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1945349565
• ISBN 13: 9781945349560
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 160