Your First Year Of Teaching: Guidelines For Success - Softcover

Merrill/Prentice Hall has created a new Professional Development Series, designed to provide a wealth of resources for teachers and other education professionals. The booklets in this series discuss the common trends in a education today, such as No Child Left Behind and how to teach English Language Learners. All of the books in the series are designed to be short, precise guides to refer to quickly and easily in your classroom. If you would like more information on Merrill's Professional Development books, please visit www.merrilleducation.com.

New to This Third Edition

• Concept that job satisfaction is a two-way street.
• Expanded inclusion of references and suggestions for further reading.
• Guidelines for working with students of differences, including a section up front on "Accommodating Student Differences," a later section on "Differentiating the Instruction: Ensuring That No Child is Left Behind," and yet another on "Differentiating Your Classroom: Modify the Key Variables of Time, Methodology, and Grouping to Ensure that No Child Is Left Behind."
• Hints for exercising creativity and individuality while teaching a prescribed and even scripted curriculum.
• Information about working with teacher mentors.
• Maintaining a professional portfolio plus personal records of the teacher's work.
• Prologue, epilogue, and an updated glossary.
• Updated Internet listings.
• Young people must be protected from dogma and allowed freedom to learn and to develop their personal values and opinions.