Surviving Your First Years in the Classroom: Twelve Brutally Honest Tips for Elementary Teachers

Survive your first years as a teacher with the no-nonsense tips and stories in this book. Learn how to choose respect over being liked, content over cute, grace over grades, and planning over Pinterest. Also find out how to avoid the teacher's lounge mentality and surround yourself with positive influences. The author's honest tone and humor throughout will leave you feeling inspired and ready to tackle the challenges that can come your way, so you can stay happy in your role and remember why you chose a career in education.

Bonus: The book features a variety of worksheets you can use immediately, on lesson planning, student behavior and motivation, and more.

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Surviving Your First Years in the Classroom: Twelve Brutally Honest Tips for Elementary Teachers

Survive your first years as a teacher with the no-nonsense tips and stories in this book. Learn how to choose respect over being liked, content over cute, grace over grades, and planning over Pinterest. Also find out how to avoid the teacher's lounge mentality and surround yourself with positive influences. The author's honest tone and humor throughout will leave you feeling inspired and ready to tackle the challenges that can come your way, so you can stay happy in your role and remember why you chose a career in education.

Bonus: The book features a variety of worksheets you can use immediately, on lesson planning, student behavior and motivation, and more.

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Surviving Your First Years in the Classroom: Twelve Brutally Honest Tips for Elementary Teachers

Surviving Your First Years in the Classroom: Twelve Brutally Honest Tips for Elementary Teachers

by Jordan McKinney
Surviving Your First Years in the Classroom: Twelve Brutally Honest Tips for Elementary Teachers

Surviving Your First Years in the Classroom: Twelve Brutally Honest Tips for Elementary Teachers

by Jordan McKinney

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Overview

Survive your first years as a teacher with the no-nonsense tips and stories in this book. Learn how to choose respect over being liked, content over cute, grace over grades, and planning over Pinterest. Also find out how to avoid the teacher's lounge mentality and surround yourself with positive influences. The author's honest tone and humor throughout will leave you feeling inspired and ready to tackle the challenges that can come your way, so you can stay happy in your role and remember why you chose a career in education.

Bonus: The book features a variety of worksheets you can use immediately, on lesson planning, student behavior and motivation, and more.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367634650
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/31/2020
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jordan McKinney is a second grade teacher in Pensacola, Florida. She has worked as a math intervention specialist, fourth grade teacher, and first grade teacher. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2019. Follow her on Instagram at @sunshinestateteacher.

Table of Contents

Opening Letter vii

Introduction 1

1 Planning over Pinterest 4

2 Respect Is Greater than Being Liked 19

3 Content over Cute 30

4 Destroy the Small-Group "Scaries" 38

5 Stay Out of the Teacher's Lounge (Mentality) 46

6 You Are Who You Plan with 57

7 Grace over Grades 67

8 You Are More than Your Classroom 77

9 We Have to Be the Game-Changers 87

10 Embrace Our YOUnique Selves 95

11 Never Stop Learning 103

12 Yes, It Is That Hard 111

Final Thoughts 117

Worksheets 119

Classroom Procedures 119

Lesson Plan Template 120

A Letter from Yon 121

Positive Comments for Your Students 122

Teachers' Guide to Sanity 124

Embracing Gratitude 125

Be C.O.N.F.I.D.E.N.T. 126

Your Word 127

I Am Worthy 128

Rubric 129

Today's Plan 130

Where Your Child Excelled This Week 131

What Rule You Broke 132

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