5 Recommended books for new teachers
If it’s the summer before your first year teaching, you’re probably wondering if you’re ready and what you can do to get more prepared. I’ve scoured my resources to come up with five books...
Category: The first year
How to communicate with a group home
Regardless of where you teach, or how affluent the area, you are very likely to encounter students who live in group homes. Students end up in group homes for various reasons. The most common...
Keeping track of parent contact
Keeping track of parent contact is incredibly important, especially for a new teacher. Some schools will even ask for parent contact lists at the end of the school year. Granted, most administrators won’t even...
Handling absentee parents
In many ways, an under involved or absentee parent is more difficult to handle than a helicopter or snowplow parent. These are the parents who don’t come to open house, they don’t have a...
A script for how to call a parent
I still dread calling parents after 14 years of teaching. The struggle is that usually, when you are calling a parent, you are the bearer of bad news (and that sucks!). Teachers, especially new...