3-Minute Tips for Teachers

Heather Garcia; Michelle Lindsey

doi:10.5771/9781475864083

Summary

This key resource for all teachers offers must-have advice to help them navigate the entire

school year through efficient, stand-alone, easy to use chapters filled with accessible, practical

advice from veteran teachers to help make the entire school year easier.

While reading this indispensable guide, teachers will:

- Access tips efficiently through the stand-alone, easy to use chapters, filled with practical

advice from veteran teachers, which can each be read in under 3 minutes.

- Receive guidance to increase professional growth, practice self-care, and boost creative

energy in the classroom from the beginning of the school year to the end.

- Engage with practical, teacher-tested advice targeted towards effective teaching and

best practices that can be used in various situations.

- Navigate the chapters in any order, based on professional development needs and

personal and professional goals.

- Inspires discussion topics for peer mentor teacher meetings, PLC groups, book studies,

staff and department meetings, and new teacher trainings.

- Build confidence through time-tested, realistic advice to navigate anticipated challenges

and triumphs as a pre-service or veteran teachers.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6406-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6408-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 174
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
1. One Start Each Year Fresh No access
2. Two Know Your Standards before the School Year Begins No access
3. Three Open House Night No access
4. Four Setting Up Your Room No access
5. Five Don’t Spend Your Check before You Earn It No access
6. Six Pre-School Nightmares No access
1. Seven Have Reasonable Expectations No access
2. Eight Start Them Right into Content in an Engaging Way No access
3. Nine Ice Breakers Are a Death Sentence No access
4. Ten Accessing Online Platforms No access
5. Eleven Battling Cell Phones No access
6. Twelve Find Out Who the Friends Are and Move Them No access
1. Thirteen Starting the Morning No access
2. Fourteen Checking Email No access
3. Fifteen Lesson Planning No access
4. Sixteen Photocopies No access
5. Seventeen Keeping Up with Grading No access
6. Eighteen Build In Workdays No access
7. Nineteen The Teacher Bag No access
8. Twenty Leaving for the Day No access
9. Twenty-One Stay Organized and Write Everything Down No access
1. Twenty-Two Collecting Student Work No access
2. Twenty-Three Handing Back Student Work No access
3. Twenty-Four Assigning Work No access
4. Twenty-Five Behaviors Requiring Routines No access
1. Twenty-Six Don’t Panic When They Call (or Email) No access
2. Twenty-Seven Informal Walk-Throughs No access
3. Twenty-Eight Formal Evaluations No access
1. Twenty-Nine Answering Emails No access
2. Thirty Calling Home No access
3. Thirty-One Using Mass-Text Alert Systems No access
4. Thirty-Two Parent Conferences No access
1. Thirty-Three Treat Your Students Like Rational Humans No access
2. Thirty-Four Keep the Rules Simple No access
3. Thirty-Five Chronically Absent Students No access
4. Thirty-Six The Loud Kids No access
5. Thirty-Seven The Mean Kids No access
6. Thirty-Eight Choose Your Battles No access
1. Thirty-Nine Choosing Your Work Tribe No access
2. Forty Deciding Where You Eat Lunch No access
3. Forty-One Know What You Can (and Cannot) Control No access
4. Forty-Two Using Your Time on Teacher Workdays No access
5. Forty-Three Ditch the Red Pen No access
6. Forty-Four What You Wear Matters No access
7. Forty-Five Good Teachers Are Always Students No access
8. Forty-Six Don’t Let the Data Scare You No access
9. Forty-Seven Polish Your Dragon Scales No access
1. Forty-Eight Back to the Basics No access
2. Forty-Nine Get ’em Movin’ No access
3. Fifty Show Students the Work Means Something No access
4. Fifty-One Make it Yourself No access
5. Fifty-Two Student Choice No access
6. Fifty-Three Let Your Kids Struggle No access
7. Fifty-Four Holy Sh*% Class Ended Early, Now What? No access
1. Fifty-Five Reading Isn’t Just for English Class No access
2. Fifty-Six Get Them Writing No access
1. Fifty-Seven Incorporating Technology No access
2. Fifty-Eight Let YouTube Help No access
3. Fifty-Nine Keep it PG No access
1. Sixty Know Your Limits No access
2. Sixty-One Allow Yourself Time to Recharge No access
3. Sixty-Two Know Your Contract No access
4. Sixty-Three Censor Your Social Media No access
5. Sixty-Four Don’t Overshare with Your Students No access
1. Sixty-Five Don’t Just Shove It All in a Box No access
2. Sixty-Six Have Kids Help No access
3. Sixty-Seven Celebrate What Worked No access
4. Sixty-EightFinancially Surviving the Summer No access
For Further Reading No access Pages 171 - 172
About the Authors No access Pages 173 - 174