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Timesavers Tips for Newer Secondary Teachers
By
  • Liza Parkinson - Ford II Teacher/UEA
    Vice-President
  • Carolyn Frischman Stevenson Teacher/UEA
    Secretary
  • Cliff Snitgen Ford II Teacher/UEA New Teacher
    Club Chair

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First
  • Lets talk
  • BASIC SURVIVAL!

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General Tips from Classroom Veterans
  • When the National Education Association
  • (NEA) asked veteran teachers what
  • advice they could give new teachers,
  • a Top 10 list was created.
  • Tips on the list included

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General Tips from Classroom Veterans
  • 1. Take your Vitamin C. Youll find yourself
    sick all the time but it will give new meaning to
    the phrase, sick of your job.
  • 2. Stock up on antibacterial waterless hand soap
    and disinfectant sprays. See tip number one.

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General Tips from Classroom Veterans
  • 3. Children are brutally honest. They believe
    they are doing you a favor when they announce to
    the class that your shirt or pants are
    unbuttoned.
  • 4. Invest in good comfortable shoes.This is no
    time to be suffering for fashion.

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General Tips from Classroom Veterans
  • 5. Practice not going to the bathroom for hours
    at a time. This probably isnt something you
    learned in any of your education courses but its
    an important skill to master.
  • 6. Practice eating your lunch in three minutes
    or less. See tip number five.

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General Tips from Classroom Veterans
  • 7. Have a stash of chocolate in your desk.
    Youll need it some days. Enough said.
  • Which brings us to Lizas List

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Lizas List of Desk Drawer Essentials!
  • Excedrin
  • Tums
  • Caffeine
  • Altoids
  • Deodorant
  • Toothpaste
  • Static Guard
  • Immodium
  • Band-Aids
  • Rubber Gloves
  • Safety Pins
  • Sewing Kit

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Tip 1Get Control of Your Classroom
  • The best way to get control of your classroom
    and keep it there is by making sure that
    learning is fun, interesting, and relevant to
    your students. Good planning helps, but when it
    seems like even the best lesson plans arent
    working, consider these tips from veteran
    teachers

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Tip 1Get Control of Your Classroom
  • 1. Make sure all students can easily see you.
  • 2. Make sure you can see all your students.
  • 3. Keep moving.

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Tip 1Get Control of Your Classroom
  • 4. Seat students needing extra help or attention
    close to the front of the room.
  • 5. Avoid down time.
  • 6. Keep in mind potential distractions.
  • 7. Write big!

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Tip 1Get Control of Your Classroom
  • 8. Have students help set classroom guidelines
    for behavior.
  • 9. Make sure students AND parents know your
    discipline standards and the consequences when
    rules are broken.
  • 10. Treat students with the same respect you
    expect from them.

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Tip 1Get Control of Your Classroom
  • 11. Be consistent. Be fair. Be positive.
  • 12. Apologize if youve treated a student
    unjustly.
  • 13. Dont be afraid to laugh at yourself!

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Tip 2Establish Rapport
  • 1. Get to know your students names quickly.
  • 2. Dress and act professionally.
  • 3. Moderate your voice.
  • 4. Keep humor in your teaching.
  • 5. Dont prejudge students.

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Tip 2Establish Rapport
  • 6. Respect your students religious, cultural and
    ethnic backgrounds.
  • 7. Reward and praise sincerely and frequently.
  • 8. Never call a student out in front of their
    peers.

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Tip 2Establish Rapport
  • 9. Let students start each day with a clean
    slate.
  • 10. Be a good role model.
  • 11. Create a safe environment in your classroom.
  • 12. Make positive phone calls home.

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Tip 3Make Parents Your Allies
  • 1. Call Parents early and often
  • Identify yourself
  • Start with a compliment
  • State the problem clearly
  • State behaviors, not opinions.

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Tip 3Make Parents Your Allies
  • 1. Call Parents early and often (cont.)
  • Give possible solutions to the problem
  • If the conversation becomes hostile, restate your
    reason for calling and bring it to a close.

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Tip 3Make Parents Your Allies
  • 1. Call Parents early and often (cont.)
  • Let parents know how and when they can reach you
  • Date and document!

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Tip 3Make Parents Your Allies
  • 2.Avoid conference catastrophes
  • Plan ahead.
  • Give a friendly and professional welcome.
  • Dont make conferences the first place to bring
    up serious issues/problems.

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Tip 3Make Parents Your Allies
  • 2.Avoid conference catastrophes (cont.)
  • Start on a positive note.
  • Dont do all the talking.
  • Be specific in your comments.
  • Stress collaboration.

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Tip 3Make Parents Your Allies
  • 2.Avoid conference catastrophes (cont.)
  • Avoid jargon, "educationese," or psychological
    labels.
  • Keep it moving.
  • End on a positive note.

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Tip 4Document, Document, Document
  • Maintain and keep in a safe place an easily
    accessible personal file(s) at home or at school
    that contain important documents such as

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Tip 4Document, Document, Document
  • 1. Licenses and/or certificates
  • 2. Diplomas
  • 3. Transcripts of credits and degrees.
  • 4. Record of job-related seminars, workshops, and
    conferences.

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Tip 4Document, Document, Document
  • 5. Record/log of every meeting and communication
    with students, parents, and administrators.
  • 6. Record of disciplinary methods used in
    handling student problems, including date and
    witnesses.

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Tip 4Document, Document, Document
  • 7. Record of used sick leave and other leave
    days.
  • 8. Log of tax-deductible job-related expenses.
  • 9. All evaluation records.
  • Which brings us to the contents of

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Carolyns Classified CYA File!(Shhh)
  • 1.You made a difference correspondences.
  • 2. Students comments from course evaluations.
  • 3. Clippings from the school newspaper.
  • 4. Recognition certificates from UCS Board, Board
    office and building administration.
  • 5. Administrative evaluations.
  • 6. Thank-yous from colleagues.

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Tip 5Utilize Your People Resources
  • Your mentor
  • Your department chair(s)
  • Your veteran teachers
  • Your administrator(s)
  • Your UEA leaders and building representatives
  • MEA Headquarters staff
  • (800) 292-1934

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Tip 5Utilize Your People Resources
  • WHO and WHERE are your UEA leaders?
  • David Kenewell (President) UEA Office
  • (586) 726-8870 dkenewell_at_mymea.org
  • Liza Parkinson (Vice-President) Ford II
  • (586) 797-1756 EParkinson_at_mymea.org

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Tip 5Utilize Your People Resources
  • WHO and WHERE are your UEA leaders?
  • Edward Fromm (Treasurer) Flickinger
  • (586) 797-4915 ef6mucs_at_ucs.misd.net
  • Carolyn Frischman (Secretary) Stevenson
  • (586) 797-2027 cf11mucs_at_ucs.misd.net
  • Emalee Baldwin (Exec. Director) UEA Office
  • (586) 726-8870 ebaldwin_at_mea.org

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Tip 6Be Computer Smart
  • See Be Computer Smart! A Guide for New Teachers
    (handout)
  • Consider using a web-based management system
    (Blackboard)
  • http//bb.misd.net/

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Tip 6Be Computer Smart
  • Save student notes in SASI
  • Learn utilize Powerpoint in your teaching
  • Learn utilize InteGrade Pro or another computer
    grading system.
  • Take UCS or MISD technology seminars.

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And now
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Timesavers!
  • 1. Amnesty Day
  • 2. Portfolios
  • 3. Random credit/no credit assignments
  • 4. Selective grading/spot-checking
  • 5. Rubrics

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Timesavers!
  • 6. Peer editing
  • 7. Cooperative learning/assessment
  • 8. Recruit reliable student aides
  • 9. Establish regular work hours
  • 10. Beg, borrow, or steal other teachers ideas
    and materials

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Timesavers!
  • 11. Assignment Books
  • 12. Find a quiet zone

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General Teaching Resources (Courtesy of Nancy
Lambert, Ford II HS)
  • UCS Media Center Homepagehttp//www.macomb.k12.mi
    .us/utica/info/lmcresources.htm
  • Connected Newsletter from Classroom Connect
    http//corporate.classroom.com/newsletter.html
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educatorshttp//school.
    discovery.com/schrockguide/        

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General Teaching Resources (Courtesy of Nancy
Lambert, Ford II HS)
  • ABC's of  Web Literacy - from U of
    Pennsylvaniahttp//oldsite.library.upenn.edu/vanp
    elt/tutorial/eval.html
  • Blogging and RSS Powerful New Web Tools for
    Educatorshttp//www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan04
    /richardson.shtml
  • Multiple Intelligences Wheelhttp//surfaquarium.c
    om/MI/mi_domains.htm

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Resources for YOU
  • UEA http//iammea.org/uticaea
  • MEA http//www.mea.org
  • NEA http//www.nea.org
  • MESSA http//www.messa.org/MESSA/Public/messahom
    e.cfm
  • MEA Financial Services http//www.meafs.com
  • Michigan Department of Education
    http//www.michigan.gov/mde
  • MPSERS http//www.michigan.gov/orsschools
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