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"This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher."
Harry K. Wong, Author
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher
Take responsibility for your own learning by learning from others.
As a new teacher, you need help! The inspiration and encouragement which mentorship provides is crucial during the first (and toughest) months of teaching. This book gives you all you need to fully recognize and utilize the valuable rewards uncovered throughout the mentoring process.
Thought-provoking and action-generating discussions reveal how to become a proactive protégé, making this book a wonderful resource in the preparation of prospective teachers. A step-by-step approach illustrates the unique perspective of receiving mentorship, and how to make the most of it. Topics discussed include:
- Building trust and clarifying communication
- Identifying who does what
- Learning from watching
- Deciding where to focus your efforts
- Planning your professional growth
Before you can profit from experience, you must acquire it. This book reveals the unique skills necessary to interpret and put to use the guidance, wisdom, instruction, and assistance of a mentor and become a self-empowered, proactive protégé.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
Introduction
1. Participate
- Take the Initiative
- Developing the Relationship Takes Time
- Earn and Keep Your Mentor's Trust
- Clarify Communication
2. Take Responsibility
- Don't Wait, Instigate
- Feedback and How to Receive It
- When to Give Feedback
- Mismatched Mentoring Relationships
- Responsibility to Yourself
- Responsibility to Others
- Get to Know Your Principal
- Clarify Ground Rules Early
3. Observe
- Be an Objective Observer
- What to Observe
- Expand Your View
- Don't Imitate, Create
4. Ask
- Whom to Ask
- Where to Ask
- How to Ask
- What to Ask For
- Why Ask?
5. Chart Your Course
- Find Out What You Don't Know
- Set Priorities
- Identify Resources
- The Power of Planning
6. Network
- Support From Collegial Groups
- Guidelines for Support and Discussion Groups
- Networking on the Internet
- Working With College and University Professors and Cohorts
7. Take Informed Risks
- Look Before You Leap
- Should You or Shouldn't You?
- Help the Risk Succeed
- Risk With Conviction
8. Reflect
- Keep a Professional Learning Journal
- Guided Reflection
- Focused Reflection
9. Give Back
- Leave a Legacy
- Be a Change Agent
- Experienced Newcomers
- The Gift of Renewal
Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers
Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers
Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages
Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages
Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet
Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet
References
References
Description
"This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher."
Harry K. Wong, Author
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher
Take responsibility for your own learning by learning from others.
As a new teacher, you need help! The inspiration and encouragement which mentorship provides is crucial during the first (and toughest) months of teaching. This book gives you all you need to fully recognize and utilize the valuable rewards uncovered throughout the mentoring process.
Thought-provoking and action-generating discussions reveal how to become a proactive protégé, making this book a wonderful resource in the preparation of prospective teachers. A step-by-step approach illustrates the unique perspective of receiving mentorship, and how to make the most of it. Topics discussed include:
- Building trust and clarifying communication
- Identifying who does what
- Learning from watching
- Deciding where to focus your efforts
- Planning your professional growth
Before you can profit from experience, you must acquire it. This book reveals the unique skills necessary to interpret and put to use the guidance, wisdom, instruction, and assistance of a mentor and become a self-empowered, proactive protégé.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
Introduction
1. Participate
- Take the Initiative
- Developing the Relationship Takes Time
- Earn and Keep Your Mentor's Trust
- Clarify Communication
2. Take Responsibility
- Don't Wait, Instigate
- Feedback and How to Receive It
- When to Give Feedback
- Mismatched Mentoring Relationships
- Responsibility to Yourself
- Responsibility to Others
- Get to Know Your Principal
- Clarify Ground Rules Early
3. Observe
- Be an Objective Observer
- What to Observe
- Expand Your View
- Don't Imitate, Create
4. Ask
- Whom to Ask
- Where to Ask
- How to Ask
- What to Ask For
- Why Ask?
5. Chart Your Course
- Find Out What You Don't Know
- Set Priorities
- Identify Resources
- The Power of Planning
6. Network
- Support From Collegial Groups
- Guidelines for Support and Discussion Groups
- Networking on the Internet
- Working With College and University Professors and Cohorts
7. Take Informed Risks
- Look Before You Leap
- Should You or Shouldn't You?
- Help the Risk Succeed
- Risk With Conviction
8. Reflect
- Keep a Professional Learning Journal
- Guided Reflection
- Focused Reflection
9. Give Back
- Leave a Legacy
- Be a Change Agent
- Experienced Newcomers
- The Gift of Renewal
Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers
Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers
Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages
Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages
Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet
Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet
References
References
Reviews
May 2002 | 96 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9780761945529 | $48.95 |
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9780761945536 | $37.95 |
"This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher."
Harry K. Wong, Author
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher
Take responsibility for your own learning by learning from others.
As a new teacher, you need help! The inspiration and encouragement which mentorship provides is crucial during the first (and toughest) months of teaching. This book gives you all you need to fully recognize and utilize the valuable rewards uncovered throughout the mentoring process.
Thought-provoking and action-generating discussions reveal how to become a proactive protégé, making this book a wonderful resource in the preparation of prospective teachers. A step-by-step approach illustrates the unique perspective of receiving mentorship, and how to make the most of it. Topics discussed include:
- Building trust and clarifying communication
- Identifying who does what
- Learning from watching
- Deciding where to focus your efforts
- Planning your professional growth
Before you can profit from experience, you must acquire it. This book reveals the unique skills necessary to interpret and put to use the guidance, wisdom, instruction, and assistance of a mentor and become a self-empowered, proactive protégé.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- 1. Participate
- Take the Initiative
- Developing the Relationship Takes Time
- Earn and Keep Your Mentor's Trust
- Clarify Communication
- 2. Take Responsibility
- Don't Wait, Instigate
- Feedback and How to Receive It
- When to Give Feedback
- Mismatched Mentoring Relationships
- Responsibility to Yourself
- Responsibility to Others
- Get to Know Your Principal
- Clarify Ground Rules Early
- 3. Observe
- Be an Objective Observer
- What to Observe
- Expand Your View
- Don't Imitate, Create
- 4. Ask
- Whom to Ask
- Where to Ask
- How to Ask
- What to Ask For
- Why Ask?
- 5. Chart Your Course
- Find Out What You Don't Know
- Set Priorities
- Identify Resources
- The Power of Planning
- 6. Network
- Support From Collegial Groups
- Guidelines for Support and Discussion Groups
- Networking on the Internet
- Working With College and University Professors and Cohorts
- 7. Take Informed Risks
- Look Before You Leap
- Should You or Shouldn't You?
- Help the Risk Succeed
- Risk With Conviction
- 8. Reflect
- Keep a Professional Learning Journal
- Guided Reflection
- Focused Reflection
- 9. Give Back
- Leave a Legacy
- Be a Change Agent
- Experienced Newcomers
- The Gift of Renewal
- Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers
- Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages
- Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet
- References