Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success

Kellough, Richard D.

ISBN 10: 0136130461 / ISBN 13: 9780136130468

Published by Pearson College Div, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success
• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0136130461
• ISBN 13: 9780136130468
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

 

NEW TO THE FOURTH EDITION

• Expanded and Revised sections on:

Accommodating Student Differences: Recognizing and Working with Specific Learners

Motivational Ideas: Build your Repertoire

Parent and Guardian Contacts and Involvement: Leaving No Parent/Guardian Behind

• Additional Teaching in Practice scenarios dealing with:

Games in the classroom and the underperforming student

Using blogs to encourage student writing

A high school physics teacher who knew very little about physics

A teacher making significant changes in her classroom atmosphere

• New topics include:

Field Trip: Planning for Success

Physical Education

Teachable Moments: Be Ready to Recognize, Catch and Run with Them

Value Difference: Avoid Being Judgmental

• Updated References and Recommended Readings