New Teacher Tips

When you have less than 100 days to go...
The top 10 things you should be asking yourself

• Teaching Strategies:
• Where am I?
• What am I doing right?
• Why is it working?
• What isn’t working?  How can I make it work?

• Management system:
• Do I need to make any changes to increase effectiveness?
• Identify specifics of what is and is not working.
• Make a detailed list of things that drive you crazy.  Use for your discipline plan for next year.

• Educational growth:
• Have my students shown educational growth in my class?
• List specifics of what and how.
• Plan for remediation to eliminate weakness. Tutoring etc.
• Decide what you can do differently in your curriculum for next year.

• Class climate:
• How is the class interaction?  Are they showing respect for all?
• Are they operating as a team?

• Unique problems:
• Faculty relationships
• Parent-teacher relationships

• Equipment:
• Use your budget by spring break
• Repair equipment
• Write a requisition for your wish list items.