Chapter 14: What Can the New Teacher Expect?
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The document provides advice and information for new teachers on various topics they may encounter in their first year of teaching. It discusses the roles of administrators, peers as both positive and negative influences, the importance of instruction and student learning, developing positive attitudes towards students, classroom management strategies, protecting against false accusations, communicating effectively with parents, and tips for surviving the first year of teaching.
Chapter 14: What Can the New Teacher Expect?
- 1. What Can the New Teacher Expect? Chapter Fourteen
- 2. Surprises for the New Teacher The school milieu: The shock of the familiar Administrators: A mixed bag Peers: A mixed blessing Instruction: So much to learn Students: Friends or fiends? Parents: Allies with different agendas
- 3. The Many Roles of Principals Colleagues Official leaders Helpers Policymakers Crisis managers Facilitators Reward dispensers Judges Buffers Sacrificial lambs
- 4. Help Administrators Can Provide Give advice on dealing with specialized problems Arrange contact with specialists Do demonstration lessons or special presentations in your class Provide focused feedback
- 5. Peers: A Mixed Blessing Positive influence – mentors, source of ideas and survival tips, welcome newcomers into custom of the school Negative influence - undermining a newcomer’s idealism, offering no help at all, disillusionment
- 6. Instruction: So Much to Learn The degree of the children’s success as learners is the best measure of a teacher’s success or failure. The link between a teacher’s instruction and a student’s learning is often overstated is crucial.
- 7. Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Students Attitudes toward students get much less positive in first year of teaching Idealism during teacher training Forget realities of own childhood Positive attitudes return Never reach same levels
- 8. VIDEO CASE: Elementary Classroom Management: Basic Strategies
- 9. Sources of Classroom Management Problems New teachers may have: Inexperience being in charge Unused to managing groups, giving orders May believe student misbehavior is teacher’s fault Difficulty establishing correct social distance May hide insecurities by being too businesslike, aloof If young, easy to be too friendly Risk of sexual attraction: AVOID
- 10. VIDEO CASE: Secondary Classroom Management: Basic Strategies
- 11. Five Steps to Limit False Accusations of Sexual Misconduct Avoid being in a private space alone with a student. Do not give students your home phone number. Avoid being in a car alone with a student. If anything of a sexual nature occurs in your classroom, take careful notes . Be exceedingly careful about speaking about sexual topics or using language that might have sexual connotations in front of students. Adapted from “Protect Yourself,” written by LaRue G. Munk, director of legal services for the Association of American Educators
- 12. Kevin and Jim’s Guide to the First Day of School Teach your very best lesson. Establish class rules and procedures. Start learning and using students’ names. Be friendly but businesslike. Share with students your vision for the year ahead. Establish procedures for communicating with parents.
- 13. Reasons for Parent-Teacher Problems Varying perceptions Judgments on students Differences of social class and experiences Overburdened parents The pain of change Privilege and responsibility
- 14. Surviving the First Year of Teaching Commit for two years. Begin now. Keep a teaching journal. Have the proper frame of mind. Find a mentor. Make your students’ parents your allies. Take evaluation seriously. Take care of yourself.