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  • New Teachers Are a Long-Term Investment

    The first few years for new teachers can be make-or-break, and school leaders can help ensure that they want to keep teaching.
    Kathryn Ghiraldini
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    8 Proactive Classroom Management Tips

    New teachers—and experienced ones too—can find ideas here on how to stop disruptive behavior before it begins.
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  • A New Teacher’s Tips for Surviving the First Year

    A first-year educator offers simple strategies that helped her balance her professional life with her life outside of the classroom.
    709
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    How Novice and Expert Teachers Approach Classroom Management Differently

    A 2021 study reveals the ways in which new and experienced teachers think about discipline—plus 6 takeaways for managing your classroom effectively this year.
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  • For New Teachers, 6 Principles to Remember This Year

    It won’t be easy, but if you prepare for turbulence and set reasonable goals, you’ll stay calmer and make progress in all the right places.
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  • 7 Attention-Getters to Use Instead of Raising Your Voice

    These visual and audio cues can help middle and high school teachers quickly get students back on track.
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    7 Classroom Management Mistakes—and the Research on How to Fix Them

    Whether our emotions get the best of us, or we fall into familiar but unproductive habits, here are 7 common classroom management mistakes, and what the research suggests you should do instead.
    21.1k
  • Relationship Building From Day 1

    Strategies for fostering relationships with middle and high school students starting on the first day of the school year and then growing them all year long.
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  • How Burned Out Are You? A Scale For Teachers

    A four-stage framework can help teachers understand the burnout process—and what they can do to protect their well-being and career.
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    19 Big and Small Classroom Management Strategies

    Successful classroom management relies on a handful of fundamental strategies and a larger number of quick interventions.
    33.9k
  • 30 Techniques to Quiet a Noisy Class

    Most teachers have a method of calling for quiet, and we’ve collected a variety of good ideas for elementary, middle, and high school.
    44.4k
  • Creating a Weekly Sequence That Works

    New and veteran teachers can benefit from creating a predictable weekly sequence of content delivery, student application and exploration, and assessment.
    474
  • How New Teachers Can Learn to Ask for Help

    Asking for help can sometimes feel like admitting failure, but these suggestions can aid new teachers as they seek out the wisdom of experienced colleagues.
    681
  • 5 Ways Seasoned Veterans Can Support New Teachers

    Making headway as a new teacher can be challenging, but the transition is easier when experienced colleagues lend a helping hand.
    264
  • Classroom Management Tips for New Teachers, From a New Teacher

    A first-year elementary teacher transformed her classroom with a focus on social and emotional learning—and a little help from Penny the Positivity Penguin.
    2.9k

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