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You loved the first edition of Works4Me, tips by experienced classroom teachers taken directly from NEA's popular Works4Me email service. In the second edition you will find tips to help you organize your classroom, manage school relationships, use new technology and much, much more.
Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created.
Introduction to Teaching: Helping Students Learn provides students and instructors with the tools with which they can achieve the many goals of today's Introduction to Education course or its equivalent. The book introduces prospective teachers to the dynamic world of teaching and learning and to the realities of the classroom experience by providing engaging student-focused activities, rich real-life examples, and thoughtful reflective exercises that will encourage students to think critically and to develop their own ideas and personal philosophy of education. This active learning approach enables prospective teachers to develop both a knowledge core about education and the critical tools they will need to meet the challenges they will face as educators in today's fast-paced, highly connected society. By exposing students to the realities of teaching, the book will help students decide if teaching is the right career for them. This text is built around two themes that are central to an exploration of the professional education field: student learning and diverse voices. As students consider a teaching career, it is important that they not lose sight of what is the most fundamental goal of education—to help students learn. The text will encourage students to examine each aspect of education as it relates to student learning. Additionally, as students explore the possibilities in being a teacher, they will begin to develop their own philosophy of education. This text will provide the prospective teacher with opportunities to explore multiple perspectives on a variety of issues of importance to today's teachers, and encourage the reader to develop his or her own personal voice as an educator and to make that voice heard in the educational community.
This checklist is intended for beginning teachers, transfer teachers, school administrators, mentors, teacher educators, and student teachers. Seven sections focus on "Getting Acquainted" (instructional resources; community facilities and resources; the school district; school rules, procedures, and policies; school personnel, services, and facilities; the classroom; and the students); "Making Management Preparations" (organizing materials, classroom helpers, class lists and rosters, school-home communication, birthdays and other celebrations, and distributing textbooks); "Determining Procedures and Rules"; "Making Instructional Preparations" (weekly time schedules, long-range plans, motivating students, planning for lesson plans, daily lesson plans, preparing a syllabus and policy sheets, tentative student assessment, determining grading policy, planning for homework, backup activities, opening class routine, and folder for substitute teachers); "Planning for the First Day"; "Organizing Your Classroom and Materials" (room identification, desk arrangements, seat selection and name tags, room arrangement, and room decoration); and "The Final Check" (have those materials ready and final check). An annotated bibliography includes 25 references in the areas of beginning the school year, classroom management and discipline, and motivating students. (SM)
This checklist for beginning teachers (as well as school administrators, mentors, teacher supervisors, and student teachers) includes five sections: "Prepare Personally and Professionally" (the last year in college and getting hired as a teacher); "Success on the Job" (know when to say no, take advantage of a mentor, network to keep current, stress management and self-care, and know what one does and why); "Communication Skills" (telephoning parents, written communication, parent conferences, and communicating with colleagues and administrators); "Classroom Management" (create workable plans, access students' interests and knowledge, accept today's students, vary teaching strategies to reach today's students, and the special needs student); and "Advice from Cyberspace" (ideas gathered for new teachers by posting a message soliciting information on various message boards). (Contains 70 bibliographic references.) (SM)
Written with a witty flair and containing real-life stories and anecdotes, this guide is the perfect companion for the high school teacher who wants to succeed in the first year and beyond.
This reference takes readers through the essential components of making a classroom computer an invaluable tool for teachers and students. Topics include managing classroom information, standards-based curriculum and instruction, traveling safely on the information highway, and professional development.
