Ages 9-13
Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for new Middle-Level Teachers
Rick Wormeli
Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks and years of teaching. For new teachers or those new to the middle-school environment, this is an invaluable resource that will help you walk through the door prepared to teach. Oriented towards the unique experience of teaching pupils aged 10 to 15, Day One and Beyond delivers proven best practices along with often-humorous observations that provide a window into the middle-school environment.
Based on many years of research and experience in the middle-school classroom, the author offers frontline advice on:
- practical survival matters, such as what to do in the first day and week and record keeping
- classroom management, including discipline, getting pupils' attention, and roving classrooms
- social issues, such as the unique nature of middle-school classes, relating to pupils and positive relations with parents
- professional concerns, from working with colleagues to professional resources all middle-school teachers should have.
Curriculum and instruction are important, but so are the practical matters that enable sound teaching practice. Day One and Beyond shows middle-school teachers how to manage the physical and emotional aspects of their unique environment so they can do what they've been trained to do: successfully teach young adolescents.
Contents
Unique Nature of Middle School Teaching; What to Do on the First Day and in the First Week; Discipline; The Physical Classroom; Grade Books, Tardies, Absences, and Other Record Keeping; Grouping; Teaming; Dealing with Homework; Parents; Substitute-Teacher Plans; Our Own Professional Development; Relating to Students; Appendix A: Sample Quarterly Newsletter, Rubrics, and Choices for the Historical Novel Unit; Appendix B: Recommended Resources; References; Index
2001 264pp paperback
978-1-57110-355-0
£24.99
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