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What do You Think?

I am collecting research for a new resource/survival manual for beginning teachers. Your input will help me determine what to include in this book. Please click on the appropriate link to share your experiences and insights (or click here for phone, fax, and snail mail alternatives).

I am a beginning teacher (preservice experience only).
Please tell what concerns you most, where you feel the weakest, or where you anticipate having some problems. Also include what you wish had been addressed in greater detail in your training.

I am a first-, second- or third-year teacher.
Please identify the areas that have presented the greatest challenges to you, where you need the most help. Also what you wish had been addressed in greater detail in your training.

I am a veteran teacher (more than three years).
Please identify the areas that have presented the greatest challenges to you, where you need the most help. Also what you wish had been addressed in greater detail in your training.

I mentor, train, or supervise beginning teachers.
Please identify the areas that tend to present the greatest challenges to new teachers, where they have needed the most help, or where they were the least prepared.

I am a parent.
Please share any comments you wish to make about the type of skills, attitudes, or behaviors that contributed to the competence of your child’s teacher (or skills, attitudes, or behaviors you wish would have been stronger).

I am a student (or former student).
Please share any comments you wish to make about what made your teacher(s) good at what they do, or what would have made them better teachers.

A note about your privacy.

Also, if you have an idea, strategy, resource, or activity that would help someone just starting out, please click here. Please indicate the grade level(s) in which you have used this idea. Also, please provide contact information in case I have any questions.

If you had it to do over, would you still become a teacher?

A note about attribution
(getting credit for your contribution).

Alternate ways to contact me to share your thoughts, experiences, and ideas:

* Mail your contribution to Jane Bluestein, 1709 Father Sky Ct NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87112 (USA)

* Fax your contribution to me at 505-323-9045

* Call me to talk (or set up a time to talk) at 1-800-688-1960 or 505-323-9044.

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