Starting Strong: Surviving and Thriving as a New Teacher

by Kristen J. Nelson, Kim Bailey, Kristen J Nelson, et al.

Book Overview

Offers classroom layout suggestions for optimal learning, procedures that promote positive behavior, guidelines for designing curriculum and instruction, methods for effective assessment, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412955629
• ISBN13: 9781412955621
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 11.5"

Customer Reviews

It's an excellent beginning teacher's guide

Kristen J. Nelson and Kim Bailey's STARTING STRONG: SURVIVING AND THRIVING AS A NEW TEACHER appears in its second edition to provide time-tested classroom strategies for new teachers just beginning their first year. College-level libraries catering to educators will find it a basic and popular pick covering everything from easy classroom layout suggestions and practices to promote positive individual and group behavior to samples of oral and written communication with parents, tips on creating classroom newsletters, and ideas for incorporating web-based learning into the curriculum. It's an excellent beginning teacher's guide highly recommended for any venturing into the classroom for the first time.