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

Two veteran educators offer new secondary school teachers a practical guide to overcoming the challenges of their first year.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 fifty 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 activitiesConnecting lesson planning and standardsIncorporating differentiation into the secondary classroomDealing with stress and nurturing yourself emotionally and physicallyWhether 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."Provides specific and practical advice, from how to create wonderful lessons to dealing with difficult parents, all geared to the needs of new secondary school teachers." —Catherine Kilfoyle Duffy, English Department Chair, Three Village Central School, Stony Brook, New York