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Ten Things that Successful New Teachers Do
The first year of teaching can be challenging, rewarding, stressful, joyful, difficult, and fun. The first year will always be memorable, with some ups and downs, but also with many valuable learning experiences for the teacher. While some teachers describe their first year as “a trial by fire,” or a “sink or swim” experience, there are strategies for making the first year more productive and less stressful. The following strategies will help you to get organized in your first classroom and to achieve success with your students. Continue reading
A Dozen Mentoring Strategies to Help the New Teacher Next Door
The mentoring of new teachers has great potential to help them grow professionally, and to retain them in the profession. A mentor serves as a guide, a role model, a friend, a confidante, and even a teacher to the new teacher. Mentors may be volunteers, or may be recruited and assigned to a new teacher in their school. Veteran teachers who become mentors want to help their new teachers, but may not know exactly how to do so.
It is important that the goals of the mentoring program be made clear to all participants before any mentoring actually begins. The district administration and the teachers need to develop a philosophy for the program. Continue reading
Helping Beginning Teachers Succeed: Five Strategies for Induction
The first few years of teaching are challenging, even for the best new hires. All new teachers struggle, but a strong teacher induction program provides support to new hires and helps to ease their transition into the profession. Induction is like a big umbrella that shelters the new teachers from the storm of the demands of teaching. Induction can increase teacher satisfaction, retention, and also increase student achievement. Five strategies for new teacher induction are discussed here. Continue reading
