Ryan A. Donlan

Uncommon Sense for New Teachers (eBook, ePUB)

A Good Beginning Is Half the Work

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Uncommon Sense for New Teachers: A Good Beginning is Half the Work is a uniquely written resource for any preservice or new teacher moving into the profession of education. Noted by its author as "the book to read, before deciding what other books to read," it offers deft perspective on the pressing issues weighing heavily on the minds and hearts of new teachers, including what teachers don't learn before they start, but should. Written in short-read sections within each unit-relevant topics can be read in any order-each serves as the whisper in one's head about what one might think, and how to act uncommonly when the next situation arises each day. This book supercharges new teachers, as they apply what they discover in their own way, in any grade, content area, or community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475871173
• Artikelnr.: 74625491

Autorenporträt

Ryan A. Donlan lives life where passion and purpose connect, serving as a lifelong teacher and leader equipping professional educators, human service professionals, and organizational administrators with the skills necessary to impact positively the lives of others. He serves as Professor of Educational Leadership at Indiana State University, travels extensively with his training, speaking, and authoring, and is most aptly defined as a humble and proud husband and father, with wife Wendy, son Sean, and daughter Katelyn, who keep him grounded and focused on his next day's best service, to others and self.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Unit 1: Your Choice of Teaching
1 A "Thank You" in Advance
2 Career Shopping
3 The New Way "You Matter"
4 Extra-Curricular Horsepower: Never-Growing-Up or Always-the-Adult
5 Your Teaching Life
Unit 2: Your Professional Preparation
6 Building Competence and Confidence
7 Things to Borrow; Things to Not
8 Student Brain Surgery
9 Special Education for All Educators
10 Finding the Pearl
Unit 3: Your Classroom
11 Your Domain; Your Show
12 Purpose, Protocol, and Predictability
13 Daily Dignity through Interaction Safety
14 Environmental Gifts for Students
15 Room Décor and Appeal: A Gathering Place
Unit 4: Your Teaching
16 Talent Scouting and Cast Management
17 Differentiated Instruction, Defined
18 Delightfully Different Differentiation
19 Maintaining Classroom Control and Order
20 Organizational Effectiveness through Student Responsibility
Unit 5: Your Students
21 What Students Are Not
22 Who Students Are
23 The Name Game
24 Bringing Their Best Self
25 Discipline as a Teachable Moment
Unit 6: Your Difference Making
26 All Other Duties As Assigned
27 What's Really Going On
28 The Secret Solution
29 Elder-like Etiquette
30 Doing Difference Differently
Unit 7: Your Workload
31 Work/Life Imbalance
32 The Urgent, the Important, the Both, and the Neither
33 Many Hands Make Light Work
34 Avoiding the Guilt Trip
35 Being Self-ful
Unit 8: Your Colleagues
36 Cast of Characters
37 When Your Mentor Is Assigned
38 Ways to Coteach Ways to Not
39 When Colleagues Resist New Things
40 Work Friends
Unit 9: Your Superpowers
41 Hero Making for Parents
42 First-Exchange Theory: The Power of the Greeting
43 Thinking on the Fly When Something Needs to Change
44 The Gift of Profanity: Reading Between the F's
45 Favoring Favorable Feedback
Unit 10: By Special Request
46 Classroom Behavioral Management
47 Relationship Building
48 Lesson Plans that Check All the Boxes
49 Driving School Data: From A to Z
50 From Tools to Techniques
Unit 11: Your Unfinished Business
51 Going Back to School
52 Starting Over, Undefeated
Conclusion
About the Author