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The Beginning Teacher’s Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years, Second Edition
Build instructional confidence with this essential reflective guide for navigating challenges and supporting new teachers. It pairs classroom management and expanded instructional strategies with teacher wellness practices—including tips for neurodivergent educators and wisdom from veterans—to ensure first-year success.
Wellness and instructional strategies for the beginning teacher
The best-selling guide for teachers to navigate their first years is back with a highly anticipated second edition. Reflecting on their own experiences as beginning educators, authors Tina H. Boogren and Adrienne Turner walk new teachers through a scaffolded series of practical approaches organized around the six developmental phases of the first few years. Gain updated classroom management and instructional strategies with critical teacher wellness practices for exponential growth and sustained career joy.
K–12 beginning teachers can use this book to:
- Master essential instructional and classroom management strategies (expanded content in this edition)
- Develop a strong professional network through supportive working relationships
- Cultivate a growth mindset to tackle challenges, strengthen professional confidence, and build resilience
- Implement proactive wellness practices like relationship building, mindfulness, and gratitude
- Utilize a powerful reflection guide to track growth and plan for continued success
Related Topics
Classroom Management & BehaviorEducator WellnessInstructionTeacher Efficacy
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“This book makes an immediate and intimate connection with readers, letting beginning teachers know that they are not alone in their excitement, confusion, and angst. It also provides concrete guidance on how they can be successful in the classroom and take care of themselves in the process. I wish I had read this some fifty-five years ago.”
“This book is a compassionate road map that brilliantly navigates through six critical phases of an educator’s early career.”
“Reading this book made me feel like I was really sharing and having a discussion with Tina and Adrienne about the first years of teaching.”
