The First-Year English Teacher's Guidebook

The First-Year English Teachers Guidebook offers practical advice and recommendations to help new English teachers thrive in the classroom. Each chapter introduces a concept crucial to a successful first year of teaching English and discusses how to incorporate that concept into your daily classroom practice. Youll find out how to: Clearly communicate instructional goals with students, parents, and colleagues; Incorporate students' out-of-school interests into the curriculum; Use assignment-specific rubrics to respond to student writing in meaningful ways; Integrate technology into ELA instruction; Conduct student-centered writing conferences; Make time for self-care and self-improvement; and much, much more. Additionally, the guidebook provides a number of forms, templates, graphic organizers, and writing prompts that will enable you to put the authors advice into immediate action. These tools are available for download on the books product page: www.routledge.com/9781138495708.