Beyond Survival: How to Thrive in Middle and High School for Beginning and Improving Teachers

Beyond Survival: How to Thrive in Middle and High School for Beginning and Improving Teachers
Author: Gary Rubinstein
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-02-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780073378794

In response to concerns about teacher retention, especially among teachers in their first to fourth year in the classroom, we offer future teachers a series of brief guides full of practical advice that they can refer to in both their student teaching and in their first years on the job.

Growing Musicians

Growing Musicians
Author: Bridget Sweet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199372071

Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond focuses on teaching adolescents within the context of a music classroom. It considers the impact of music education on adolescents as they transition from child to adult as well as encourages music educators to mindfully examine their own teaching practice.

Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known!

Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known!
Author: Jerry L Parks Ed S Nbct
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781450244268

The new, revised, expanded & updated edition of Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known! is here. It is an indispensable survival manual for any teacher entering the wonderful world of middle schoolers! It provides practical, essential, and usable information to help new teachers set up and run a classroom, motivate students, and understand the unique environment that is middle school . Crucial elements discussed include: 170 tips from experienced and award-winning teachers (new!) Behavior management that works 29 practical & useful Appendices (revised!) Utilizing Ruby Payne's research on diversity (new!) The most important lesson a teacher will ever learn Helpful Internet websites (revised!) The 5-10-15-20 rule of time management The M.A.S.T.E.R.Y. Principle of successful teaching Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known! is designed for Pre-service and new teachers. Helps are presented in a handy, quick-reference format. This is the book every experienced middle school teacher wishes they'd had their first year of teaching! Jerry has succeeded in describing the delicate balance between the technical organizational aspects of teaching, and the relational, humanistic characteristics of the profession. It is gratifying to know that common sense' still plays a big part in the field of education. Dave Shepard, Middle Matters, former vice president of the Kentucky Middle School Association An incredible blueprint for someone starting his or her career! Not only that, but a great resource for teachers trying to improve their teaching and classroom management skills needs to be used in college teacher-prep programs. Tommy Hurt, Principal, The Georgetown Middle School Dr. Jerry Parks truly understands teaching and learning at the middle school level. Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known! is a wonderful reading for beginning and experienced middle school teachers! Dr. Dallas Blankenship, Superintendent, Scott Schools, Georgetown, KY

Teacher Under Construction

Teacher Under Construction
Author: Jerry L. Parks
Publisher: Weekly Reader Teacher's Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known! is an indispensable survival manual for any teacher wishing to enter the wonderful world of middle schoolers! It provides practical, essential, and usable information to help new teachers set up and run a classroom, motivate students, and understand the unique setting that is "middle school". Crucial elements discussed include: Behavior management that works! The most important lesson a teacher will ever learn... Parent conferencing checklist Helpful Internet websites for teachers only! Room essentials! Surviving opening day! The 5-10-15-20 rule of time management The M.A.S.T.E.R.Y. Principle of successful teaching Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known! is designed for Pre-service and new teachers. Helps are presented in a handy, quick-reference format. This is the book every experienced middle school teacher wishes they'd had their first year of teaching! "Jerry has succeeded in describing the delicate balance between the technical-organizational aspects of teaching, and the relational, humanistic characteristics of the profession. It is gratifying to know that 'common sense' still plays a big part in the field of education." --Dave Shepard, Middle Matters, former vice president of the Kentucky Middle School Association "...an incredible blueprint for someone starting his or her career! Not only that, but...a great resource for teachers trying to improve their teaching and classroom management skills...needs to be used in college teacher-prep programs." --Tommy Hurt, Principal, The Georgetown Middle School "Dr. Jerry Parks truly understands teaching and learning at the middle school level. Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known! is a wonderful reading for beginning and experienced middle school teachers!" --Dr. Dallas Blankenship, Superintendent, Scott Schools, Georgetown, KY

We Want to Do More Than Survive

We Want to Do More Than Survive
Author: Bettina L. Love
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807069159

Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

The Middle School Survival Guide

The Middle School Survival Guide
Author: Arlene Erlbach
Publisher: Walker Childrens
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780802788528

The only survival guide a middle school kid will ever need. It can be the best of times. It can be the worst of times, too. Middle school happens at that tumultuous time in life when one’s not a teenager and not a little kid. Middle school means being a middle-aged kid. Expectations—from teachers, parents, friends, siblings—can all change dramatically, causing worry and concern even for the most laid-back student. The Middle School Survival Guide covers every issue, inside school and out, from the most trivial concerns to the most serious issues that middle school students face today. Arlene Erlbach has assembled a teen advisory board of 200 kids between fifth and tenth grade who give advice about topics from cracking a locker combination, to dealing with multiple teachers, to sex and dating.

Big Bri's Survival Guide to High School

Big Bri's Survival Guide to High School
Author: Brian Heffernan
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781478174202

Big Bri's Survival Guide to High School is a day-by-day, week-by-week, and term-by-term book of advice on how to survive and succeed in high school. Each page offers useful tips to help students navigate their way through the 180-day school year. This very readable manual for success is designed to help students keep organized, stay on task, and take charge of their academics. High school you will see is like playing a game, and to be successful, you simply have to know how to play the game. Brian Heffernan has been helping students work their way through high school for over twenty-five years. He has worked as a special education teacher, a co-teacher of math, and is a licensed school administrator in the state of Massachusetts. Throughout his career as an educator, he has noticed that there have been universal lessons that apply to all high school-aged students. He has developed Big Bri's Survival Guide to High School as a manual for success, and gives you step-by-step instructions on how to play the game. Brian believes that given the proper tools, all students can succeed at a level that readies them for college, career, and the world. This book is a must-have for any high school-aged student, and is an informative resource for the entire school community, including parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, and coaches. Visit us at: www.facebook.com/bigbrissurvivalguide www.heffernanenterprises.com

Surviving Middle School

Surviving Middle School
Author: Luke Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1582705542

Introduces Luke Reynolds, who has the insider facts on the most proficient method to make companions, deal with bullies, and have a magnificent time in the middle school.

The Successful Teacher's Survival Kit

The Successful Teacher's Survival Kit
Author: Dale Ripley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475847076

If you have ever had the opportunity to observe a master craftsperson at work, one of the first things you will notice is how easy they make their work look. This principle applies to artists, athletes, plumbers and painters. It also applies to teachers. If you were fortunate enough to have some master teachers in your K to 12 schooling or for your university student teaching, you will have seen this principle at work. You will recall how easy they made teaching look. For the most part, their classes just flowed. The teacher would ask the students to do something, and the students did it. The teacher would cue the kids to transition into a new activity, and the kids transitioned. There was little conflict, few arguments, and the vast majority of classroom time was spent engaged in learning. It is a pleasure to observe these kinds of behaviors in the classrooms of master teachers, but this leaves us with an important question: how do they do it? Just how did these teachers get their students to be so cooperative and have their classroom running so smoothly? That is what THE SUCCESSFUL TEACHER’S SURVIVAL KIT: 83 simple things that successful teachers do to thrive in the classroom will show you – the kinds of things that master teachers do to make their classes work – both for themselves and for their students. You too can become a master teacher. This book will show you how.

Flash Feedback [Grades 6-12]

Flash Feedback [Grades 6-12]
Author: Matthew Johnson
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071803131

Beat burnout with time-saving best practices for feedback For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on—time. Matthew Johnson offers classroom-tested solutions that not only alleviate the feedback-burnout cycle, but also lead to significant growth for students. These time-saving strategies built on best practices for feedback help to improve relationships, ignite motivation, and increase student ownership of learning. Flash Feedback also takes teachers to the next level of strategic feedback by sharing: How to craft effective, efficient, and more memorable feedback Strategies for scaffolding students through the meta-cognitive work necessary for real revision A plan for how to create a culture of feedback, including lessons for how to train students in meaningful peer response Downloadable online tools for teacher and student use Moving beyond the theory of working smarter, not harder, Flash Feedback works deeper by developing practices for teacher efficiency that also boost effectiveness by increasing students’ self-efficacy, improving the clarity of our messages, and ultimately creating a classroom centered around meaningful feedback.