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Supporting New Teachers

A How-To Guide for Leaders
By: Lynn F. Howard

Foreword by Lisa Parker

Fifty percent of new teachers leave within the first five years. Why? Learn how leadership affects retention and learn how to stop the new teacher exodus.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781483375007
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2015
  • Page Count: 184
  • Publication date: July 27, 2015
Price: $39.95
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What are you doing to sustain new teachers?

Fifty percent of new teachers leave within the first five years of teaching. Why? Surveys cite paperwork, discipline, communication, and feelings of isolation. But exiting teachers say lack of support from the administration, specifically the principal, causes them to leave the profession.

Today’s educational landscape requires administrators to balance management and instructional leadership. While many understand management, creating a supportive environment that builds capacity and fosters positive communication isn’t so intuitive. This guide provides leaders with realistic and simple-to-implement strategies that support new teachers. Every chapter includes:

  • Stories From the Field -- features common challenges and practical strategies
  • Administrator’s Role -- frames solutions within job function, current trends, and research-based practices
  • Self-Reflection -- guides action planning with checklists and worksheets

If leadership makes the difference in keeping new talent, get this guide to stop the new teacher exodus.

"Lynn Howard reinforces the fact that what we do every day to support teachers, specifically new teachers, impacts student learning. The self-reflection questions in each chapter provide an opportunity to honestly reflect on current practices as an instructional leader. Building on your own individual strengths and challenges in providing new staff support through self-reflection will provide the tools for the development of a realistic plan of action to support, develop, and retain new teachers."
Dr. Lena Marie Rockwood, Assistant Principal at Rumney Marsh Academy
Revere Public Schools, Massachusetts

“I wish I had this book my first year as an Assistant Principal."
Lisa Parker, First Year Teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal of the Year
Bertie County Schools, NC

Key features

  • Multiple real world scenarios to support the content and the strategies for administrators
  • Multiple learning strategies repeated in every chapter:

Quotes

Story from the field

The administrator’s role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-reflection questions

  • Charts and exhibits help provide administrators with specific tools that they can use for observations, feedback, and communicating with their staff
  • Results from the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher

Author(s)

Lynn F. Howard photo

Lynn F. Howard

Lynn Howard is an author, professional development associate and teacher. She has worked for the Leadership and Learning Center for the past ten years and worked in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System for over 30 years as a middle grades science and math teacher, coordinator of the gifted program, and a K- 12 Regional Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. She served on the National Association of Geoscience Education’ Speakers Bureau as a keynoter, board member and professional developer.

Lynn has presented at the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Science Teachers Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Learning Forward, International Reading Association, Association for Middle Level Educators and state and regional conferences.

She has published numerous books including Ready for Anything: Supporting New Teachers for Success and three grade levels of Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program. She wrote “Connecting Science Standards and Assessments”, a chapter in Standards and Assessment: The Core of Quality Instruction. Her latest chapters, “Success in the Beginning: Supporting New Teachers and “Balanced Science Instruction” are published in Engaged Instruction: Thriving Classroom in the Age of the Common Core. Lynn also contributed to the new Response to Instructional Strategies and Interventions: Scenarios for K-12 educators by Dr. Linda Gregg.

Lynn holds a Master's of Earth Science and Education and a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Academy Certification from the National Staff Development Council, and national certification in Gifted and Talented.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lisa Parker

Preface

A Vision of Teaching

Looking Through the Eyes of a New Teacher

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Why Teachers Quit

New Teacher Support Programs

Rationale for Supporting New Teachers

How to Use the Book

How the Book Is Organized

Chapter 1. Instructional Leadership

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 2. Planning for New Teacher Support

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 3. Building Relationships

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 4. New Teachers and Stress

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 5. Before School Starts

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 6. Classroom Management

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 7. Curriculum Standards and Planning

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 8. Collaboration and Communication

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 9. Effective Teaching and Best Practices

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 10. Observations and Evaluations

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Chapter 11. Celebrating Success

Quote

Story From the Field

The Administrator’s Role

What Else Can I Do?

Self-Reflection Questions

Final Thoughts

References and Suggested Readings

Index

Reviews

Quote by Dr. Lena Marie Rockwood, Assistant Principal at Rumney Marsh Academy, Revere Public Schools, Massachusetts : "Lynn Howard reinforces the fact that what we do every day to support teachers, specifically new teachers, impacts student learning. The self-reflection questions in each chapter provide an opportunity to honestly reflect on current practices as an instructional leader. Building on your own individual strengths and challenges in providing new staff support through self-reflection will provide the tools for the development of a realistic plan of action to support, develop, and retain new teachers."
"Lynn Howard reinforces the fact that what we do every day to support teachers, specifically new teachers, impacts student learning. The self-reflection questions in each chapter provide an opportunity to honestly reflect on current practices as an instructional leader. Building on your own individual strengths and challenges in providing new staff support through self-reflection will provide the tools for the development of a realistic plan of action to support, develop, and retain new teachers."
Dr. Lena Marie Rockwood, Assistant Principal at Rumney Marsh Academy
Revere Public Schools, Massachusetts
Quote by Jay Posick, Principal at Merton Intermediate School, Merton, Wisconsin: “Lynn has provided a wonderful guide for all principals to follow while working with our new teachers. There are specific “stories from the field” that we can all relate to and reflective questions to end every chapter. The book provides terrific suggestions for nearly every aspect of a new teacher’s acclimation to a school. This is not a “one size fits all” book, but a book that makes you thinks about how we all help our new teachers become more a real part of our schools.”
“Lynn has provided a wonderful guide for all principals to follow while working with our new teachers. There are specific “stories from the field” that we can all relate to and reflective questions to end every chapter. The book provides terrific suggestions for nearly every aspect of a new teacher’s acclimation to a school. This is not a “one size fits all” book, but a book that makes you thinks about how we all help our new teachers become more a real part of our schools.”
Jay Posick, Principal at Merton Intermediate School
Merton, Wisconsin
Quote by Lisa Parker, Assistant Principal, Principal of the Year, Bertie County Schools, NC: “I wished I had this book my first year as an Assistant Principal. It is very hard to focus and do the job with fidelity. I find myself not able to read Supporting New Teachers: A How-to Guide for Leaders continuously. I discovered that each chapter must be consumed like the mini chocolates. Eat a few chapters at time, to savor the taste and enjoy moments of opportunities to grow and learn as an educational leader."
“I wished I had this book my first year as an Assistant Principal. It is very hard to focus and do the job with fidelity. I find myself not able to read Supporting New Teachers: A How-to Guide for Leaders continuously. I discovered that each chapter must be consumed like the mini chocolates. Eat a few chapters at time, to savor the taste and enjoy moments of opportunities to grow and learn as an educational leader."
Lisa Parker, Assistant Principal, Principal of the Year
Bertie County Schools, NC
Quote by Catherine Koontz, ESL teacher, Mineral Springs Elementary, Winston-Salem, NC: "The strategies in the book help leaders take teachers beyond the theory into the actual reality of day-to-day teaching. As a beginning teacher, I lacked the confidence and experience necessary to manage a classroom of children. I attribute my success to the support I received from my principal."
"The strategies in the book help leaders take teachers beyond the theory into the actual reality of day-to-day teaching. As a beginning teacher, I lacked the confidence and experience necessary to manage a classroom of children. I attribute my success to the support I received from my principal."
Catherine Koontz, ESL teacher
Mineral Springs Elementary, Winston-Salem, NC
Quote by The California Bookwatch: February 2016: "Supporting New Teachers: A How-To Guide for Leaders provides a basic set of directions designed to help leaders support the efforts of new teachers, addressing the problem of some fifty percent of new teachers leaving the discipline within the first five years. Studies show that paperwork demands and isolation contribute to the exodus, but so does lack of administrative support. This manual offers information on the types of support that make a difference, gathering stories from the field with discussions of how administrators can make a difference in new teacher success. Any in a position to help will find this filled with specific ideas for improvement."
"Supporting New Teachers: A How-To Guide for Leaders provides a basic set of directions designed to help leaders support the efforts of new teachers, addressing the problem of some fifty percent of new teachers leaving the discipline within the first five years. Studies show that paperwork demands and isolation contribute to the exodus, but so does lack of administrative support. This manual offers information on the types of support that make a difference, gathering stories from the field with discussions of how administrators can make a difference in new teacher success. Any in a position to help will find this filled with specific ideas for improvement."
The California Bookwatch: February 2016

Other Titles in: Principalship | Staff Supervision / Evaluation / Retention

Price: $39.95
Volume Discounts applied in Shopping Cart

Review Copies

Review copies may be requested by individuals planning to purchase 10 or more copies for a team or considering a book for adoption in a higher ed course. To request a review copy, contact sales@corwin.com.