Becoming a Win-Win Teacher: A Guide for First-Year Teachers offers beginning teachers a balanced, positive framework for creating an effective, successful, and satisfying teaching experience. Jane Bluestein shows how new and veteran teachers alike can use a win-win approach to teaching that involves thinking, planning, and making decisions in ways that take the needs of others into consideration—students as well as other members of the school community—while meeting personal and professional goals. INDICE: About the AuthorPrologue: Why I TeachIntroduction1. Win-Win TeachingPart I: Commitment2. Teaching as a Calling3. Climate Advisory: Entering Win-Lose Territory Financial Realities It’s Harder than it Looks Lack of Support Difficult Students, Difficult Parents Value and Status Issues of Autonomy and Discretion4. Winning in a Win-Lose System: Why We Stay The Good News Touching the Future Feedback and Satisfaction in Service Variety, Joy, and Creative Expression The Power of Connection It Gets Easier5. What to Pack: Your Personal AssetsPart II. Survival6. Assume Your Professional Identity It’s About Time Stepping Up: You in a Leadership Role Looking Like a Teacher What Matters Most: Who You Are in the Classroom Life in a Fishbowl Protect Yourself7. Understand Schools in Context The World Has Changed and Schools Have Not Kept Up Kids Are Not Who They Used to Be The Challenge of Change 8. Learn the System What you Need to Know Navigating Politics and Agendas Dealing With Toxic Environments and Situations9. Build your Support Team The Value of Collaboration Finding an Effective Mentor Building Your Support TeamPART III. Students10. Make a Connection Disconnected Students The Value of Connectedness Connecting With Kids Beyond the Grade Book11. Avoid Win-Lose Power Strategies Behavior Management and Teacher Preparation Our Most Beloved (and Persistent) Win-Lose Traditions12. Create a Win-Win Classroom Relationships Structure and Routines Flexibility and Fairness Choices Asking for What You Want Positive Consequences Following Through Good Directions Recognition and Positive Feedback Keeping a Cool Head Offering Emotional Support Encouraging Problem Solving Build Community Instructional Issues That Impact BehaviorPART IV. Self13. Growing Your Career Growing What You Know Reflection Opportunities and Next Steps (When You’re Ready)14. Take Care of Yourself Feeling the Heat Your Health, Your Body, and Stress Seeking BalanceAcknowledgmentsReferencesIndex
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