Give new teachers the time and professional guidance they need to become expert teachers. Investigate key research, and examine the four types of support-physical, emotional, instructional, and institutional-that are crucial during a teacher's first year in the classroom. Discover essential strategies for K-12 mentors, coaches, and school leaders to develop an effective mentoring program schoolwide.
Benefits
 -Review research related to high teacher turnover rates. -Consider the important components and new-teacher supports that school leaders should have at the forefront of mentoring programs. -Learn how to ascertain which teachers have the skills and experience to be effective mentors and how these mentors can form prosperous relationships with their mentees. -Answer chapter-ending comprehension questions to retain each chapter's main topics. -Read the author's personal essays from her first year of teaching, each accompanied by questions that mentors and mentees can use to spark discussion.

Supporting Beginning Teachers (Classroom Strategies)

Education & Teaching

Tina H. Boogren

Schools & Teaching

Marzano Research

Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. This book builds on the themes of Awaken the Learner: Finding the Source of Effective Education, which asserts K-12 schools' extreme focus on knowledge and skill acquisition is detrimental to students' growth. With this practical resource, you'll discover a results-driven framework-based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals-that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students. The authors share comprehensive understandings of the nature of motivation and inspiration and detail specific strategies to connect with your students: how creating a positive classroom community will support students' sense of belonging; how teachers can ensure students feel safe in the classroom; and what teachers should do so students experience self-actualization in class.
 Benefits -Gain specific chapter-ending guidance on how to use the book's strategies to connect with students at each level of the student needs hierarchy. -Consider scenarios that portray how the book's suggestions might play out in the classroom. -Review mindsets, dispositions, and behaviors that result in negative, unhelpful thinking and in positive, productive thinking. -Study step-by-step processes that ensure students' needs get met in individual classrooms. -Use the Awaken the Learner Snapshot Student Survey to assess students' levels of engagement, attention, motivation, and inspiration in school. Contents 1. Research and Theory 2. Connection to Something Greater Than Self 3. Self-Actualization 4. Esteem Within a Community 5. Belonging 6. Safety 7. Physiology Epilogue Appendix Obtaining Feedback References and Resources

Motivating and Inspiring Students: Strategies to Awaken the Learner (Providing a Positive Learning Experience for Students)

Robert J. Marzano

Darrell Scott

Ming Lee Newcomb

Support and retain your best and brightest new teachers. The second edition of this acclaimed book retains much of what made the original a classic, but now offers the latest research along with new insights, strategies, and best practices. Whether you're a K-12 mentor, coach, or school leader, you will gain evidence-based actions you can take today to successfully guide educators during their initial years in the profession. 
Use this book to better support overwhelmed teachers during their first, critical years: Understand why good teachers quit, the causes of high turnover rates, and how to deal with burnout. Learn how to create a comprehensive mentoring program, designed to offer career guidance and build new teachers' expertise by targeting their unique needs. Review numerous strategies pertaining to four types of support: (1) physical, (2) institutional, (3) emotional, and (4) instructional. Discover how to foster positive mentor-mentee relationships for beginning teacher support and professional growth. Find reproducible tools, templates, and reflection questions to enhance your understanding.\nContents: Introduction Chapter 1: Research and Theory Chapter 2: Designing an Effective Mentoring Program Chapter 3: Providing Physical Support Chapter 4: Providing Institutional Support Chapter 5: Providing Emotional Support Chapter 6: Providing Instructional Support Epilogue Appendix: Reflections of a Beginning Teacher References and Resources Index

Supporting Beginning Teachers (Tips for Beginning Teacher Support to Reduce Teacher Stress and Burnout)

Marzano Resources

The joys and pains of starting a teaching career often go undiscussed. This field guide dives deep into the personal side of teaching, offering crucial advice, empathy, and new-teacher support. The author details six phases every new or first-year teacher goes through (anticipation, survival, disillusionment, rejuvenation, reflection, and second anticipation) and outlines targeted classroom strategies, teaching tips, and self-care practices for each. Transcend the emotional, mental, and physical problems teachers face in the classroom: 
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<li>Understand the feelings and teaching challenges of each phase during a beginning teacher's career.</li> <li>Practice self-care to combat beginning and first-year teacher stress and burnout; avoid the mental pitfalls that so often lead to teachers changing careers.</li> <li>Learn effective classroom-management strategies for new teachers and how to maintain positive relationships with students.</li> <li>Respond to prompts that will help you process and reflect on your first years' culmination.</li> <li>Utilize the prompts and journaling spaces throughout the book to reflect on your professional improvements and successes.</li>
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Contents: Introduction: First Things First Chapter 1: The Anticipation Phase Chapter 2: The Survival Phase Chapter 3: The Disillusionment Phase Chapter 4: The Rejuvenation Phase Chapter 5: The Reflection Phase Chapter 6: The Second Anticipation Phase Appendix A: End-of-the-Year Activities Appendix B: Mementos Epilogue: The Year in Retrospect References and Resources Index

The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years (Self-Care and Teaching Tips for New Teachers)

Solution Tree Press

The key to thriving, as both a human and an educator, rests in mindfulness, reflection, and daily self-care activities. With Take Time for You, you will discover a clear path to well-being by working through Maslow's hierarchy of needs: (1) physiological, (2) safety, (3) belonging, (4) esteem, (5) self-actualization, and (6) transcendence. The author offers a range of manageable research-based strategies, self-care surveys, and reflective teaching questions that will guide you in developing an individualized self-care plan. Embrace imperfection as you develop your own self-care plan: 
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<li>Understand the challenges to mindfulness for teachers and how Maslow's hierarchy of needs comes into play in your personal and professional life.</li> <li>Design action plans so you can meet your own physiological, safety, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization needs and, finally, transcend and connect with something greater than yourself.</li> <li>Take surveys and perform a daily time audit to determine how well you are meeting each of your needs.</li> <li>Use the journaling space and self-reflection questions provided throughout the book to reflect on your implementation efforts.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Understand the Framework Chapter 2: Physiological Needs Chapter 3: Safety Needs Chapter 4: Belonging Needs Chapter 5: Esteem Needs Chapter 6: Self-Actualization Needs Chapter 7: Transcendence Needs Epilogue: Final Thoughts Appendix: My Personalized Self-Care Plan References and Resources Index

Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators (Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Positive Psychology)

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom. With author Tina H. Boogren's guidance, you will work your way through thirty-six weeks of daily self-care strategies and techniques, each corresponding with a week of the school year. Weekly themes range from creativity and inspiration to relationships and time management for teachers and administrators. Follow this self-care plan designed to support your health and wellness during the school year: 
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<li>Understand how prioritizing your own self-care will better equip you to positively impact student learning and achievement.</li> <li>Discover low- and no-cost self-care ideas for teachers and administrators designed to help make meaningful, positive change.</li> <li>Explore the dangers of stress in the classroom and in an educator's personal life, and understand how this stress affects students.</li> <li>Learn how to assess what you need, check in with yourself throughout the day, and act on what you learn.</li> <li>Utilize reflection questions to help you think through which strategies worked -- and which didn't.</li> <li>Let go of the expectations of perfection while practicing these self-care techniques and teacher wellness ideas.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Section I: Preparing for a Season of Sacrifice Week One: Music (Days 1-5) Week Two: Nutrition and Hydration (Days 6-10) Week Three: Sleep (Days 11-15) Week Four: Laughter (Days 16-20) Week Five: Technology (Days 21-25) Week Six: Altruism (Days 26-30) Week Seven: Wardrobe (Days 31-35) Week Eight: Time (Days 36-40) Week Nine: Mindfulness (Days 41-45) Section II: Dealing With Disillusionment Week Ten: Time (Days 46-50) Week Eleven: Relationships (Days 51-55) Week Twelve: Gratitude (Days 56-60) Week Thirteen: Saying No (Days 61-65) Week Fourteen: Inspiration (Days 66-70) Week Fifteen: Help (Days 71-75) Week Sixteen: Comfort (Days 76-80) Week Seventeen: Social Media (Days 81-85) Week Eighteen: Habits (Days 86-90) Section III: Finding Balance Week Nineteen: Creativity (Days 91-95) Week Twenty: Altruism (Days 96-100) Week Twenty-One: Indulgence (Days 101-105) Week Twenty-Two: Adventure (Days 106-110) Week Twenty-Three: Orderliness (Days 111-115) Week Twenty-Four: Obligations (Days 116-120) Week Twenty-Five: Play (Days 121-125) Week Twenty-Six: Email (Days 126-130) Week Twenty-Seven: Replay (Days 131-135) Section IV: Finishing Strong Week Twenty-Eight: Hobbies (Days 136-140) Week Twenty-Nine: Cognition (Days 141-145) Week Thirty: Transitions (Days 146-150) Week Thirty-One: Listening (Days 151-155) Week Thirty-Two: Journal (Days 156-160) Week Thirty-Three: Outdoors (Days 161-165) Week Thirty-Four: Morning Routine (Days 166-170) Week Thirty-Five: Active Rest (Days 171-175) Week Thirty-Six: Summer To-Do List (Days 176-180) Epilogue: Create Your Own Self-Care List Appendix: Final Reflection Index

180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators (A 36-Week Plan of Low-Cost Self-Care for Teachers and Educators)

Many instructional leaders find differentiating their coaching practices for beginning and veteran teachers challenging. In Coaching for Educator Wellness: A Guide to Supporting New and Experienced Teachers, author Tina H. Boogren provides instructional and self-care strategies that coaches and mentors can implement to support both their newest and most experienced teachers. Equipped with extensive coaching experience, Boogren shares interactive activities and easy-to-replicate strategies to build a schoolwide system of support. By reading this book, instructional leaders and coaches review the important components and essential values of coaching educators.

Coaching for Educator Wellness: A Guide to Supporting New and Experienced Teachers (An Interactive and Comprehensive Teacher Wellness Guide for Instructional Leaders)

Educators make thousands of decisions and encounter and experience varied emotions at work; without an efficient wellness routine, educators' jobs can result in prolonged stress. In Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being, authors Timothy D. Kanold and Tina H. Boogren provide a framework to guide and support K-12 educators in continuously sustaining personal and collective wellness plans. The authors explore four core dimensions of educator wellness-(1) physical, (2) mental, (3) emotional, and (4) social-and twelve corresponding routines to improve educators' professional lives by avoiding prolonged stress. By implementing the routines and strategies in this book-the foundational text of the Wellness Solutions for Educators?-teachers and administrators at every level become active, reflective participants in their wellness journeys.

Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being (Actionable Steps for Self-Care, Health, and Wellness for Teachers and Educators)

Timothy D. Kanold

Higher & Continuing Education

Educators’ daily stressors can easily accumulate without intentional wellness actions in place. Designed as both a plan book and journal, this companion resource to Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being offers inspirational, practical weekly routines and reflections for teachers committed to improving their wellness practices throughout the school year. 
Use this plan book and journal to: Commit to practices that encourage well-being in each of the four dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, and social Organize your thoughts, collect data on your current habits, and reflect on areas to improve with 46 field-tested tools Monitor your progress on each month’s wellness goal and set intentions to encourage long-term maintenance of positive habits 
Contents: 
Part 1: About This Plan Book and Journal 
Part 2: Summer―A Season of Renewal 
Part 3: Fall―A Season of Opportunity 
Part 4: Winter―A Season of Perseverance 
Part 5: Spring―A Season of Transition 
Appendix: Journal Tools 
References and Resources 
Index

Educator Wellness Plan Book and Journal, The: Continuous Growth for Each Season of Your Professional Life (A purposeful planner designed to build habits for well-being)

Jasmine K. Kullar

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