Heather Garcia, Michelle Lindsey

3-Minute Tips for Teachers

A Toolbox of Ideas for Teachers to Use the Entire School Year

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is filled with quick tips to help teachers through the school year. It is designed for the busy teacher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781475864076
• ISBN-10: 1475864078
• Artikelnr.: 63158614

Autorenporträt

Heather Garcia has a BA in English, an MA in English, and an MFA in Writing and has taught courses ranging from elementary-level art full of finger paint and clay modeling to high school remedial reading and writing to Advanced Placement Literature. She was also a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University teaching Composition to incoming freshmen and sophomores, which are really just older high school students with a bit more freedom. She has trained new and experienced teachers in new educational programs at her district and she has been a mentor for new teachers for over ten years. Michelle Lindseyhas her BA in English and Literature and her MFA in Writing and has a wide range of teaching experience.She currently is the Program Planner for the English Department at her public high school, serves on her school's Literacy Committee to help promote active reading and better writing throughout all disciplines within her school, and her district's curriculum mapping committee. She also mentors new and veteran teachers coming into the district.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Section 1: Preparing for the Start of School
1. Start Each Year Fresh
2. Know Your Standards Before the School Year Begins
3. Open House Night
4. Setting Up Your Room
5. Don't Spend Your Check Before You Earn It
6. Pre-School Nightmares
Section 2: Starting the School Year
7. Have Reasonable Expectations
8. Start Them Right Into Content In an Engaging Way
9. Ice Breakers Are a Death Sentence
10. Accessing Online Platforms
11. Battling Cell Phones
12. Find Out Who the Friends Are and Move Them
Section 3: Making Your Workload More Manageable
13. Starting the Morning
14. Checking Email
15. Lesson Planning
16. Photocopies
17. Keeping Up With the Grading
18. Build In Work Days
19. The Teacher Bag
20. Leaving for the Day
21. Stay Organized and Write Everything Down
Section 4: Establishing Student Routines
22. Collecting Student Work
23. Handing Back Student Work
24. Assigning Work
25. Behaviors That Need Routines
Section 5: Dealing With Administration
26. Don't Panic When They Call (Or Email)
27. Informal Walk-Throughs
28. Formal Evaluations
Section 6: Communicating With Students, Parents, and Administration
29. Answering Emails
30. Calling Home
31. Using Mass-Text Alert Systems
32. Parent Conferences
Section 7: Optimizing Interpersonal Skills
33. Treat Your Students Like Rational Humans
34. Keep the Rules Simple
35. The Chronically Absent
36. The Loud Kids
37. The Mean Kids
38. Choose Your Battles
Section 8: Thriving as an Educator
39. Choosing Your Work Tribe
40. Deciding Where You Eat Lunch
41. Know What You Can (and Cannot) Control
42. Using Your Time On Teacher Workdays
43. Ditch the Red Pen
44. What You Wear Matters
45. Good Teachers Are Always Students
46. Don't Let the Data Scare You
47. Polish Your Dragon Scales
Section 9: Increasing Student Engagement and Learning
48. Back to the Basics
49. Get em' Movin'
50. Show Students the Work Means Something
51. Make It Yourself
52. Student Choice
53. Let Your Kids Struggle
54. Holy Sh*% We Ended Early, Now What?
Section 10: Incorporating Reading and Writing
55. Reading Isn't Just for English Class
56. Get Them Writing
Section 11: Crossing the Digital Divide
57. Incorporating Technology
58. Let YouTube Help
59. Keep it PG
Section 12: Creating and Maintaining Your Work-Life Balance
60. Know Your Limits
61. Allow Yourself Time to Recharge
62. Know Your Contract
63. Censor Your Social Media
64. Don't Overshare With Your Students
Section 13: Ending the School Year
65. Don't Just Shove It All In a Box.
66. Have the Kids Help
67. Celebrate What Worked
68. Financially Surviving the Summer