Discover strategies and tools for new teacher success. In this user-friendly guide, the authors draw from best practice and their extensive experience to identify the necessary skills and characteristics to thrive as a new educator. Explore the six critical areas related to teaching that most impact new teachers and their students, from implementing effective assessments to working confidently and effectively with colleagues.
Benefits:
- Understand the important role of teachers, the challenges new teachers face, and strategies to overcome those challenges.
- Learn the characteristics necessary to thrive as a new teacher in six spheres: self, students, classroom management, curriculum management, assessment, and colleagues.
- Access templates, including self-assessments and checklists, to support the efforts of new teachers.
- Determine how to establish classroom procedures and rules early on, and discover tools to promote positive behavior and handle disruptive behavior.
- Connect with students, parents, school leaders, and colleagues to create an atmosphere that supports both teachers and students.
Contents:
Introduction: Preparing for Your First Year
Chapter 1: Understanding Yourself
Chapter 2: Getting Off to a Great Start
Chapter 3: Building Relationships With Students
Chapter 4: Developing Processes and Procedures for Classroom Management
Chapter 5: Managing Difficult Behaviors
Chapter 6: Tackling Curriculum Management
Chapter 7: Incorporating Assessment
Chapter 8: Engaging Students in the Classroom
Final Thoughts: Becoming a Thriving New Teacher
References and Resources
Index
John Eller is an educator with varied experiences in working with adults over the years he has been in education. He has worked with masters students in developing professional learning communities at both Southwest Iowa Principal's Academy, an assistant superintendent for curriculum, learning, and staff development, a principal in a variety of settings, and a secondary and elementary teacher. He works with groups to help them unleash the potential that may be locked up inside their organizations. In addition to the work he does in training and supporting facilitators, he also provides organizations assistance in the areas of dealing with difficult people; building professional learning communities; employee evaluation; conferencing skills, coaching skills; strategic planning strategies, school improvement planning and implementation; differentiated instruction; leadership for differentiation; employee recruitment, selection, and induction; supervisory skills; effective teaching strategies; and a variety of other topics pertinent to today's educators. He currently lives in Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area with his family. He has his PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Loyola University-Chicago and his MS in Educational Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He has authored books on substitute teaching, support materials for school leaders, and has assisted in the design of the e-learning communities in the areas of data-driven instruction and differentiated instruction that are currently being implemented by Sagebrush Learning and Corwin Press. He has experience in writing e-learning course material, and coaches site leaders in their implementation efforts.
Sheila Eller has worked in a multitude of educational settings during her career. In addition to her current position as a principal in the Fairfax County Virginia Public Schools, she has served as a middle school principal in the Moundsview Minnesota School District, as a principal in other schools in Minnesota and Illinois, as a university professor, as a special education teacher, a Title I math teacher, and a self-contained classroom teacher in Grades 1-4. Eller has also been a member of the executive board of Minnesota ASCD and has been a regional president of the Minnesota Association of Elementary School Principals.
Eller is a regular presenter at the ASCD National Conventions, sharing her expertise on the topic of effective staff meetings and multiage instruction. While she served as a professor at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois, she worked on the development team for a classroom mathematics series that was adopted by several districts in the region. Her classroom and instructional techniques were featured on a video that was produced as a complement to this series. She works with educators in developing energized staff meetings, school improvement initiatives, multiage teaching strategies, employee supervision, and other teaching and learning content areas. In addition to Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees, Eller coauthored the best-selling Energizing Staff Meetings and the book Creative Strategies to Improve School Climate through Corwin Press. She has advanced coursework in educational administration and supervision from St. Cloud State University, her master's degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University.
