Lifesaving Strategies for New Teachers

by Dottie Raymer

A great little book for new teachers...or veteran teachers who need a few tips. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893751880
• ISBN13: 9781893751880
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: School Renaissance Institute
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Useful for New and Experienced Teachers

Becoming a good teacher not a challenge solely for the beginning teacher. It is in fact a lifelong process. This book contains 49 one-page chapters of advice. These include the finding of a mentor teacher, the overplanning of lessons, use of Lee-Canter-like rules and consequences, reliance on classroom routines, and praising children publicly but criticizing them privately. Also included are such things as strategies for reducing the papers-to-correct workload, learning pupils' names as soon as possible, various sponge activities, simplifying the class attendance by having attending children drop a clothespin bearing their name into a bucket, and much more. Strategies are also given for getting free or inexpensive classroom equipment. For example, student's cubicles could be made out of empty cereal boxes. Also, the teacher should go to yard sales and thrift stores. A bibliography in the back of the book tells the reader about other books, and websites, devoted to the success of beginning teachers.