The New Teacher's Complete Sourcebook

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Summary: Calling ALL Teachers!
Review: EXCELLENT FOR STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER INSERVICING!

This sourcebook has been the most effective for making changes in my classroom! It provides details of things to consider when starting a new year of teaching (or your first!) It details everything from how to make procedures (and includes an exhausting list of them), how to facilitate learning through a wide variety of intructional activities, and how to organize assessments and grades so they make sense! And much, much more!!

Every teacher should invest in a copy of this book and take a walk through it's pages. It's very easy to read, includes a number of resources, and gives us a good look at our teaching practices. A reflective teacher is a much more effective teacher!

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Summary: Perfect for new elementary teachers!
Review: Since I am somewhat new to the teaching profession, I was looking for all of the resources I could get!! I came across this book, and I really like the way that it's set up. It is simply written, and broken up into organized bullets in each section!

There are chapters containing subjects such as: Countdown to the first day, the first day, the first month, the first year, the end of school. Within those sections, you have things like classroom procedures and rules, student helpers, lesson plans, substitutes, working with parents, learning centers, assessment, and everything else that you could imagine!

I loved the "helpers" on the sides of the pages! Seymour Books gives you resources for more reading!
Sir Chalott gives you webpages!
Uneeda Halt comes around to make sure that you do the most important things first!
Pierre Tutor directs you to the person you need to talk to when it comes to site-specific info, mentoring, and peer coaching!
Mia First encourages you to take time for yourself and to relax!!

At the very end, there are reproducible pages for behavior charts, progress reports, behavior bucks, and agenda chart icons! (reading together, art, music, library, drama, ABC's, etc) There are also helper chart icons so you can copy and laminate for class jobs! I have always loved scholastic books and I highly recommend this one for new classroom teachers grades K-4!
Diane (kindergarten teacher)