First Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities For Meeting The Challenges Of Each School Day (J-B Ed:Survival Guides)
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Product Description
The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuable tips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becoming effective team players and connecting with students to handling behavior problems and working within diverse classrooms.
The new edition?is fully revised and updated to cover changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years. Updates to the second edition include:
•?New ways teachers can meet the professional development requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act
•?Entirely new section on helping struggling readers, to address the declining literacy rate among today’s students
•?Expanded coverage of helpful technology solutions for the classroom
•?Expanded information on teaching English Language Learners
•?Greater coverage of the issues/challenges facing elementary teachers
•?More emphasis on how to reach and teach students of poverty
•?Updated study techniques that have proven successful with at-risk students
•?Tips on working effectively within a non-traditional school year schedule
•?The latest strategies for using graphic organizers
•?More emphasis on setting goals to help students to succeed
•?More information on intervening with students who are capable but choose not to work
•?Updated information on teachers’ rights and responsibilities regarding discipline issues
•?Fully revised Resources appendix including the latest educational Web sites and software
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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wow
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Wow. I bought this book for myself, knowing that it might be helpful as a college supervisor of teachers. I started earmarking important pages and soon found that I was marking each page, so I just bought copies for all my students. I find this book more useful that Wong's first year teaching book, but that's great also.
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Over-rated
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I bought this book because of the high reviews it got; if I knew the information that this book provided--I would not have gotten it. Every teacher should start out knowing what this book has to offer as soon as they went through schooling during their Undergrad or Credentialing stages of their career. It wastes time and pages talking about NCLB--when obviously as a "first year teacher" you already know of NCLB and the hurdles it presents. This doesn't help you or provide you with any information or techniques that you shouldn't have already learned in school; especially if you got your credential from CA--none of what she tells you or talks about is new or an eye opener. A waste of money. Will sell you mine! Actually I only give this **, not ***. (couldn't edit; browser froze)
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Excellent
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This item is a great tool for a first year teacher! It has been very helpful so far in my first year of teaching! It makes a great graduation gift as well!
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This Book May Replace Harry Wong
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Though a fan of Harry Wong's "The First Days of School" I was recently shown this text by a colleague of mine. She had received an extra review copy in her mailbox and we were talking about texts to use in our related college classes.
I spent an afternoon in this book, thinking, "Wow I wish I'd had this as a first year teacher." This is basically a "big book" of short articles, essays, lists, and anecdotes covering every aspect of classroom teaching.
The text is beautifully designed, logically organized, and well-written. This book explains so many of the practical aspects of teaching. Aspects that will quickly determine a young teacher's success in the classroom (and in many cases the duration of their career in it).
For twenty bucks, even veteran teachers should have a copy on the shelf.
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A must have!
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This book has many ideas that are valuable to any subject. Great forms for copying, ideas for classroom management problems, how to make a great impression, etc. I reference it weekly.
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