First Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the...

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	First Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges ... Julia G. Thompson Jossey-Bass, 2007 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Finally a truly comprehensive guide!

I gained an enormous amount of insight, strategies and techniques from this book. As a student who is about to start her teaching internship, I really liked this book. It involved classroom management, classroom planning, dealing with administration and parents as well as making time for your personal life. This is one of the most comprehensive resources I've seen so far. I highly recommend it.

Every new teacher needs this book!

Julia Thompson has provided an excellent book for both beginning teachers and veterans looking to improve practice. She is both philisophical and practical and I'm going to give this book as a gift to all of my beginning teacher friends! I've read many similar books and this one is the best yet!

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Great for pre-service teachers!

I purchased this book along with Wong's First Days of School, and I actually prefer this survival guide. I am a career-changer, currently enrolled in a Master's program, and I am going to be teaching my first class this fall. In grad school I've learned content, content, content and some pedagogy, but nothing about the day to day activities and challenges that I am going to face as a first year teacher! I felt completely clueless about what to expect and what I should be doing to prepare myself. (And I didn't want to wait until the first day of school to find out!) This book has provided invaluable guidance. It has worksheets, self-quizzes and a lot of suggestions that have helped me build confidence and gain a little better clue as to what I should be expecting. If you have been teaching for a while, a lot of it may appear to be common sense, but for those of us new to the profession, it has a lot of great tips and solid common sense suggestions that I have found extremely helpful.

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Everything you need all in one place

I purchased this book to help me prepare for my first year, and I love it. I find that while the famous "First Days of School" is motivating and inspirational, "Survival Kit" is more practically useful. It has lists for many occasions which I find easy to use and very helpful. Ideas and topics I might never think of and those I've thought of and forgotten are both here, and it's great to have them together at my fingertips in one reference. I believe this is an essential resource for a new teacher at any grade level.

Dry but useful

This book is pretty useful, but very dry. I've found some helpful insights, but most of this I already knew from my teacher education program. It was a nice refresher, though. Rookie Teaching for Dummies has basically the same info in a user-friendly guide. Also, I can't find the Activities at all.

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