The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide, Second Edition
This new edition is the result of the success of the bestselling
First-Year Teacher's Survival Kit. The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide, Second Edition is fully revised and updated to cover the many changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years, including topics such as literacy education, the requirements of No Child Left Behind, and and the changes in classroom technology integration.
Some of the 'how to' topics covered in
First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide, Second Edition include these:
• How to help students improve their reading skills
• How to avoid a lawsuit
• How to create a positive self-fulfilling prophecy
• How to personalize report cards
• How to assemble a first-day welcome packet
• How to help students cope with negative peer pressure
• How to create a class Web page or newsletter
• How to use the many Web resources for educators
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For a copy of the study guide questions for this book, please e-mail Julia Thompson at thompson_juliag@yahoo.com.
Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher
All teachers know that without a mannerly classroom environment, no lesson, no matter how creative, how beautifully planned, or how artfully delivered, can be successful. The goal of every teacher is to help students learn to be successful while managing their own actions.
Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher can provide you with the tools you need to accomplish your professional goals as you help your students achieve their dreams.
Some of the 'how to' topics covered in
Discipline Survival Kit for the Secondary Teacher include these:
• How to help students become self-disciplined
• How to teach study skills and time management
• How to identify discipline responsibilities
• How to establish classroom routines
• How to relate well to every student
• How to minimize disruptions
• How to use every minute of instructional time
• How to solve specific discipline problems
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An Excerpt from Section 12 of The First- Year Teacher's Survival Guide, Second Edition
Productive Transitions
"...These small activities, called 'sponges,' can add motivation and new information to a lesson...Adapt, adjust, or add information to create other activities that will keep your students involved in productive learning all period long.
Ask students to:
1. Justify the rules for…
2. Apply the information in the lesson to real-life situations
3. Defend a position
4. Write the definition of an unusual word
5. Match words and meanings
6. Unscramble vocabulary words
7. Create a 'To Do' list for a project or other activity
8. Explain the correct procedure for…
9. Complete a word sort
10. Modify a procedure so that it is more efficient
11. Modify a tool so that it is more efficient
12. Explain what they learned in the lesson
13. Read a brief newspaper article and respond to it
14. Create a timeline
15. Tell what to do in an emergency involving…
16. Make a brief outline
17. Fill in the blanks in a brief outline
18. Brainstorm as many_____ as they can
19. Read a brief Internet article and respond to it
20. Put events in order
21. Read a catalogue to find…
22. Practice the process of elimination on sample standardized test questions
23. Paraphrase information
24. Respond to a political cartoon
25. Respond to a humorous cartoon
26. Respond to a picture
27. Respond to an advertisement
28. Review information with a partner
29. List important facts from the last few days of class
30. Explain why the day’s lesson is useful
31. Recall facts from the last lesson
32. Predict the outcome of a story
33. Predict the outcome of information in the chapter under study
34. Explain why it is important to use time wisely
35. Use two of the key terms from the lesson in a sentence
36. Answer general trivia questions
37. Find places on a map
38. Draw a map
39. Color a map
40. Write a key term on a scrap of paper and pass that scrap to a classmate who has to explain it
41. Circle or highlight key words in their notes or reading
42. Play a game of 'Hangman' to review vocabulary words
43. Make quick flash cards to review vocabulary
44. Proofread a paragraph containing grammatical errors
45. Proofread a paragraph containing factual errors
46. Read the opening paragraphs from a lesson and tell a partner what they learned
47. Brainstorm a list of key words from the lesson
48. Offer solutions for a variety of problems
49. Create a mnemonic
50. Brainstorm a list of ten important concepts from the lesson
51. Brainstorm a list of ideas for a creative project based on the lesson
52. Explain the day’s objectives
53. Explain a study skill
54. Write a timeline of a current event
55. Brainstorm the causes of a current event
56. Brainstorm the effects of a current event
57. Summarize the lesson orally with a partner
58. Describe an object in the room in twenty-five words
59. Draw a concept from the lesson
60. Use stick figures to draw idioms
61. Make up a true or false quiz on the lesson
62. Take a true or false quiz on the lesson
63. Time a classmate as he or she reviews the main points of the lesson
64. Scan the text to find…
65. Complete a logic puzzle or brain teaser
66. Copy and define the word of the day
67. Read a newspaper article and respond
68. Complete a brief Cloze exercise
69. Go to a learning center and…
70. Complete analogies
71. Put words in alphabetical order
72. Explain what they learned in another class that they can use now
73. Explain what they learned in this class that they can use in another class
74. Classify groups of words
75. Justify the reasons for…
76. Create a brief word search puzzle for a classmate to solve tomorrow
77. Create test questions with answers
78. Create relationships among the vocabulary terms in the lesson
79. Practice math problems
80. Help a friend with a math facts drill
81. Complete a math word problem
82. Make up a math word problem
83. Make up math problems for review
84. Quiz themselves on the words on a word wall
85. Brainstorm a list of the similarities between themselves and the people in the lesson
86. Define some of those words on standardized tests that trouble students: imply, infer…
87. Follow directions to create a simple origami figure
88. Brainstorm examples of words such as politician, healer, explorer
89. Follow specific directions to star, underline, or circle certain words in a passage
90. Create a cause and effect web about an event in the lesson
91. Complete a Mad-Lib
92. Make a Venn diagram about something in the lesson
93. Write about the meaning of a quotation
94. Write a question about the lesson they will study tomorrow
95. Find as many synonyms for a word as possible
96. Clean out their book bags
97. Do a maintenance check on their binders
98. Finish famous proverbs such as 'The early bird gets the___'
99. Decide how and when they will complete their homework assignment
100. Find three dissimilar objects and describe what they have in common
101. Explain a favorite line from a song"
