Making Your First Year a Success: A Classroom Survival Guide for Middle and High School Teachers

Wyatt III, Robert L.,White, J. Elaine

ISBN 10: 1634503341 / ISBN 13: 9781634503341

Published by Skyhorse, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Your First Year a Success: A Classroom Survival Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1634503341
• ISBN 13: 9781634503341
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

You’ve completed the course work, student teaching, and interviewing. The job is yours. Now what? The first weeks and months of a new teaching position can be the most demanding of your entire career. In this new edition of their bestseller, veteran educators Robert L. Wyatt III and J. Elaine White share a combined 50 years of teaching experience as well as insight and advice from hundreds of teachers in the field they have personally trained. Comprehensive yet concise, Making Your First Year a Success is expressly tailored to assist secondary teachers. Updated topics in this thoroughly revised second edition include:
• Integrating technology into classroom activities
• Connecting lesson planning and standards
• Incorporating differentiation into the secondary classroom
• Dealing with stress and nurturing yourself emotionally and physically
Whether starting fresh with your first group of students or revitalizing your commitment to the profession you entered many years ago, this handbook will easily become the well-worn reference you turn to again and again for quick tips, practical applications, and words of encouragement.

About the Author

Robert L. (Bob) Wyatt III is a professor of education at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, where he has taught for the past thirteen years. He also taught education courses as a graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma while completing his doctorate. He taught at the secondary level in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, and at the college level in New Mexico and Texas for twenty-five years prior to achieving his master’s and doctorate degrees.