For New Teachers
(and their supportive administrators!) For New Teachers
(and their supportive administrators!)
I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.
Between Teacher and Child, Haim Ginott
General Help // Finding Positions and Marketing // For Concerned Administrators // PA Specific Information // Other Resources
About.com Elementary Educators: New Teachers http://k-6educators.about.com/cs/newteachers/index.htm
About.com Secondary Educators http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa072701a.htm
AdPrima: Toward the Best http://www.adprima.com/mainmenu.htm
Advice for First Year Teachers From the Principals Who Hired Them http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin124.shtml
Advice for New Teachers from the “Sophomores” who Survived Last Year http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr152.shtml
Beginning Teacher’s Tool Box http://www.inspiringteachers.com/
Center for Innovative Instructional Resources http://ghost.rider.edu/cii/
Education Week: Teaching as a Profession http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=25
Education World Professional Development Center http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/index.shtml
First 180 Days: First-Year Teacher Diaries http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr262.shtml
Homepage for New Math Teachers http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/terri.html
Learn NC New Teacher Support http://www.learnnc.org/newlnc/newteach.nsf/FrontPage?OpenForm
Middle Web: First Days of Middle School Help for New Teachers http://www.middleweb.com/1stDResources.html
Mighty Mentors http://www.mightymentors.com
NEA: A Better Beginning http://www.nea.org/teachershortage/betterbeginnings.html
New Jersey Dept. of Education Resources for Novice Teachers http://www.njpep.org/resources/novice_teacher_resources/general.html
New Teachers Survival Guide http://hannahmeans.bizland.com/
Pennsylvania Network of Milken Educators Mentoring Initiative http://pd.l2l.org/milken/mentor.html
Phi Delta Kappa’s New Teacher Connection (Just beginning) http://www.pdkintl.org/ntc/ntchome.htm
Scholastic: Support for New Teachers http://teacher.scholastic.com/newteacher/
Teacher Tools http://www.teachertools.org/forms_dynam.asp
Teaching is a Work of the Heart http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/
TeachNet’s New Teachers Online http://www.teachnet.org/ntol/index.htm
Tidbits of Information From a Rookie Teacher http://www.iloveteaching.com/TidBits/index.htm
What Every New Teacher Needs to Know About Discipline (EdWeek 9/15/99) http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-19/02keatin.h19
What Qualities do Principals Look for in a New Teacher http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin071.shtml
What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/
Welcome to the Profession http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_MCINTYRE/1stYearT.html
65 Ways to Say "Good for You" http://socialstudies.com/c/@LnpRUajlkBs_s/Pages/article.html?article@65ways
Educational Quotes http://www.willamette.edu/~srhine/Courses/quotes.htm
Finding Positions / Marketing Yourself
Certification for Fifty States (University of Kentucky) http://www.uky.edu/Education/TEP/usacert.html
Teacher Porfolios (ERIC Digest) http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed385608.html
Teaching Portfolios Tips (Eastern Kentucky University) http://www.tlc.eku.edu/tips_portfolios.htm
Teacher and Student Electronic Portfolios http://electronicportfolios.com/teachers/
REAP: Regional Education Applicant Placement http://www.reap.net/
National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse http://www.recruitingteachers.org/channels/clearinghouse/
Education America http://educationamerica.net
Praxis Series (Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers) http://www.ets.org/praxis/index.html
Middle Web Teacher Mentoring Resources http://www.middleweb.com/mentoring.html
Educational Leadership (May 1999) Supporting New Teachers http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/9905/toc.html
Mentor Teacher Handbook http://www.gse.uci.edu/MentorTeacher/Contents.html
New Teacher Induction Guidelines (PA) http://www.pde.state.pa.us/regs/stratplan.html
Promising Practices New Ways to Improve Teacher Quality http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PromPractice/
Academic Standards http://www.pde.state.pa.us/stateboard_ed/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=76716&stateboard_edNav=|5467|&pde_internetNav=|
Assessment and Testing http://www.pde.state.pa.us/a_and_t/site/default.asp?g=0&a_and_tNav=|630|&k12Nav=|1141|
Teaching in Pennsylvania http://www.teaching.state.pa.us/teaching/site/default.asp
Job Vacancies in Pennsylvania http://www.teaching.state.pa.us/teaching/cwp/view.asp?a=13&Q=32441&teachingNav=|93|109|Keep
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