first year teachers

Presents over one hundred tips for new teachers and their mentors, grouped in the categories of classroom management, planning, instruction, professionalism, motivation and rapport, and a teacher's influence.

Provides advice for first-time high school teachers, covering such aspects as physical environment, mutual trust with students, classroom management, lesson plans, assessment, technology, parent communication, and being a professional.

Presents the diary of teacher Esme Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city public school.

Discusses attrition rates among new teachers and outlines a beginning-teacher assistance program which would provide the new teacher with a mentor and a support team comprised of individuals from the school, the district, the community, and/or higher education.

Offers new teachers an overview of the many issues they weren't introduced to in college courses, including information on classroom management, effective classroom strategies, classroom management, and other related topics.