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The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook

Flourishing in Your First Year

Second Edition
By: Kathleen Feeney Jonson

By providing desperately needed, yet often unavailable, practical advice, this easy-to-read, updated resource empowers new teachers with the tools necessary to succeed and feel prepared, confident, and comfortable. It is teeming with helpful hints, red flags to watch for, examples of best practices, and time-saving solutions for common questions and concerns.

This enhanced second edition offers the following new features:

Classroom-tested techniques for managing a multicultural, demographically diverse student population
Tips for maximizing technology
Twelve additional "Resource" sections that provide quick-reference, ready-to-use ideas
Tactics for coping with the pressures of accountability, high standards, and high-stakes testing

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Grade Level: PreK-4
ISBN: 9780761978732
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2001
Page Count: 248
Publication date: December 31, 2001

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"The most helpful and practical resource I own! It has aided me in increasing my efficiency and therefore my confidence in the classroom. This is a must-read for all first- year teachers!"
Jennifer Jackson, First-Grade Bilingual Teacher
Landels Elementary School
Mountain View, CA

"A blockbuster book for the beginning teacher—chock-full of practical and imaginative suggestions. A source book of fine educational practices."
Mary B. Roberts, Principal (retired)
University of San Francisco College of Education, CA

"Kathleen Jonson has designed an excellent road map to guide new teachers during their beginning years."
Gail Adams, Program Administrator
Curriculum Improvement and Professional Development
San Francisco Unified School District, CA

The ultimate how-to reference—here's expert teaching advice at your fingertips anytime you need it!

An invaluable companion for any beginning teacher, this definitive resource has been updated to offer even more tried and true techniques to foster triumphant teaching. Drawing upon more than 27 years' experience as an educator, the author highlights the most effective strategies that lead to powerful results in the classroom.

The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook Flourishing in Your First Year, second edition, provides desperately needed, yet often unavailable, practical advice. This easy-to-read, jargon-free guide empowers new teachers with the tools necessary not only to feel prepared, confident, and comfortable, but also to succeed, maintain enthusiasm, and remain committed to the profession. It is teeming with helpful hints, red flags to watch for, examples of best practices, and time-saving solutions for some of the most common questions and concerns practitioners face.

Among the numerous strategies and survival skills the book promotes are time and stress management, effective organization, quality lesson plans, and professional development. It deals with such issues as assessment, preventive discipline, homework, and motivation. Jonson offers sound advice on building positive relationships with parents and conducting school events, including a parent conference, open house, and back-to-school night. Resources include sample homework and behavior contracts, model letters to parents, and examples of programs for students with special needs.

This enhanced second edition offers the following new features:

Classroom-tested techniques for overcoming the challenges of a multicultural, demographically diverse student population, including limited-English-proficient students
Tips for maximizing technology
Twelve additional "Resource" sections that provide quick-reference ideas easy to implement in any classroom
Tactics for coping with—and even embracing—the pressures of accountability, high standards, and high-stakes testing

Resources include sample homework and behavior contracts, model letters to parents, and examples of programs for students with special needs.

Author(s)

Kathleen Feeney Jonson

In her 40 years as an educator, Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Professor Emeritus, has been a teacher, taught director of staff development, principal, director of curriculum and instruction, and university faculty. She conducted numerous workshops for teachers and administrators on such topics as reading comprehension strategies, writing process, portfolio assessment, peer coaching, and beginning teacher assistance programs. Until her retirement in summer 2009, Jonson was professor of education and coordinator of the Master in Arts in Teaching Reading program at the University of San Francisco's School of Education. She published three books with Corwin Press, including The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook (1st edition 1997, 2nd edition 2001), Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed (1st edition 2002, 2nd edition 2007), and 60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K–8 (2006).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

About the Author

1. You Are Not Alone

2. Organizing Your Classroom and Yourself

3. Learner-Friendly Classroom Management

4. Preparing Lesson Plans and Units That Engage Students

5. Preventing Discipline Problems

6. Assessing Student Learning and Performance

7. Developing Partnerships With Parents

8. Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers!)

9. Your Own Professional Development

References and Suggested Readings

Reviews

Praise for the First Edition: "The most helpful and practical resource I own! It has aided me in increasing my efficiency and therefore my confidence in the classroom. This is a must-read for all first-year teachers!"

Jennifer Jackson
First-Grade Bilingual Teacher, Landels Elementary School, Mountain View, CA

"A blockbuster book for the beginning teacher—chock-full of practical and imaginative suggestions. A source book of fine educational practices."

Mary B. Roberts, Supervisor, Elementary Education
College of Education, University of San Francisco

"Kathleen Jonson has designed an excellent road map to guide new teachers during their beginning years."
Gail Adams, Program Administrator
Curriculum Improvement and Professional Development; San Francisco Unified School District

Quote by National Science Teachers Association NSTA Recommends.: “The New Elementary Teacher’s Handbook provides a wealth of excellent information and practical advice for the novice teacher. This easy-to-read handbook offers comprehensive guidance to help new teachers deal efficiently with the many complexities of teaching. From classroom seating charts to dealing with staff and parents, this guide offers excellent advice on a wide range of issues.”

“The New Elementary Teacher’s Handbook provides a wealth of excellent information and practical advice for the novice teacher. This easy-to-read handbook offers comprehensive guidance to help new teachers deal efficiently with the many complexities of teaching. From classroom seating charts to dealing with staff and parents, this guide offers excellent advice on a wide range of issues.”
National Science Teachers Association NSTA Recommends.

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