{"product_id":"when-youre-the-new-teacher-28-strategies-to-align-your-good-intentions-with-your-teaching-practices-9798885545099","title":"When You're the New Teacher: 28 Strategies to Align Your Good Intentions with Your Teaching Practices","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelf-directed, self-paced professional learning teachers can use to build agency and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeachers start their professional journey with a clear aim: to teach well so students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. All too often, though, the hard realities of teaching (mandated curricula, scripted lesson plans, overloaded schedules, students' personal struggles) hamper the best of intentions. Navigating these challenges and avoiding burnout calls for teachers to build strong relationships among colleagues, students, families, and communities. Those relationships in turn help teachers create contexts for deep learning, reflection, and student-centered instruction. This book provides strategies and tools for doing all this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis must-have resource: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides student teachers and new teachers with a clear set of actions to move into their position and teach well right from the start.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers practical, step-by-step guidance for building relationships with colleagues and administrators, affirming students' identities, navigating challenges with other professionals, and putting love and care at the heart of teaching.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelps educators build a foundation and philosophy for teaching and collaborating and includes stories from educators and sample dialogues.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Elizabeth Soslau wrote this book to be a resource for self-directed, self-paced professional learning that teachers could use to develop and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day. It's a guide that every student teacher, in-service teacher, host teacher, and student teaching field instructor needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Elizabeth Soslau\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She focuses her teaching, research, and service efforts on \u003ci\u003etzedakah\u003c\/i\u003e (justice) and \u003ci\u003etikkun olam\u003c\/i\u003e (repair the world). Her research focuses on experiential learning opportunities in classrooms, schools, and the community. Elizabeth seeks to explore and enhance teaching practices that support teachers' and students' understandings of systemic social ills, develop critical consciousness, and strengthen their voice and activism skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Comprehensive Guide to Working with Student Teachers \u003c\/i\u003e(Teachers College Press) and \u003ci\u003eWhen You're the New Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e (Free Spirit Publishing)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has appeared in outlets such as the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Teacher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Teaching and Teacher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal for Multicultural Education, Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Exponent\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also a reviewer for numerous journals, a long-time board member of the Philadelphia-based nonprofit Need in Deed, and serves on the International Advisory Board for the \u003ci\u003eStudying Teacher Education\u003c\/i\u003e journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer clinical work includes teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in critical reflection, equity, urban education, case study methods, and action research. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth's other important work is serving as a very proud mother of the hilarious and creative Harry Counter. She is also a dedicated partner to Chris Counter. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Elizabeth taught middle school in the School District of Philadelphia. She lives and works in the Delaware Valley area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Free Spirit Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901257715986,"sku":"9798885545099","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a09930a-1b38-4a3f-a4f4-4832f4045b62.jpg?v=1738418919","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-youre-the-new-teacher-28-strategies-to-align-your-good-intentions-with-your-teaching-practices-9798885545099","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}