A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices

A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices


ISBN/ISSN: 1575179377 ISBN-13: 9781575179377


Author: Yvonne Gentzler
Copyright: 2005


Explore and adopt best-practice teaching strategies to achieve professional excellence!

New teachers begin their careers with great enthusiasm and purpose, but often face many challenges in their first years of teaching. A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices supports new teachers with guidelines for applying best teaching practices to improve their professional effectiveness.

This reflective workbook is full of best-practice tools and strategies. Each chapter focuses on a different teaching challenge-"practical problems- that teachers face daily-and offers research-based solutions, along with teacher tips and student perspectives from across the country. An invaluable resource for new teachers to use at their own pace, or for staff developers presenting teacher induction workshops, this richly detailed text invites new teachers to:

- Record their present beliefs

- Outline their aspirations

- Define their goals and objectives

- Set a course of action

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