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Another Book on the Horizon!

*Background: Information about this project
*What do beginning teachers need (or need to know)?
*Share ideas, techniques, and activities that could help beginning teachers!
*If you had it to do over, would you still become a teacher?

I barely have time for the ink to dry on my corrections on the last book and suddenly my editor and I are talking about what’s next!!

Well here’s what’s next: A new book for beginning teachers, and you can help!

A little backstory: My very first book was a handmade collection of more than 400 pages of handouts, resources and survival information in response to the needs and inquiries of first-year teachers with whom I had been working at the University of New Mexico. By the fall of 1982, I had assembled these pages into a coil-bound workbook for my 12 intern teachers, and this step began my work as a writer and publisher.

Over the years, what started as The Beginning Teacher’s Resource Handbook eventually became Being a Successful Teacher, a book with its own storied past, including eight or nine different publishers in its lifetime. When the book went out of print in Jan. 2005 (immediately after being acquired by the last publisher), I bought out all remaining copies and started thinking about what I might create to take its place when my stock ran out.

Looking back over what is essentially a 25 year old book, it’s really clear that this book needs a pretty significant overhaul. With so many changes in policies, practices, and priorities, not to mention vocabulary, technology, and liability issues, whatever comes out of this process will look significantly different from what was “enough” for that last group of intern teachers.

I am, at the moment, interviewing people, beginning teachers, veterans, supervisors, principals, and parents, to get a better sense of what needs to be included in this book. I’ve been surveying workshop and seminar participants and want to open it to site visitors.

If you would like to share your input, specifically, what you think beginning teachers would need in a book like this, please click here.

Also, if you have an idea, strategy, resource, or activity that would help someone just starting out, please click here.

What do beginning teachers need (or need to know)?

Ideas to help beginning teachers.

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