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Hope it's OK if I post here... I have a friend who is a newly certified teacher in her first job. She was SO EXCITED, thinking she'd finally found her place. She's teaching middle school science and is having a horrible time, mostly with discipline & kids just not paying attention. To make matters worse, about half of her kids aren't fluent in english - add in the stresses of poverty and cultural differences, top it off with the fact she's SO soft-spoken...

She is so discouraged. Most of the other teachers have just given up, so they're not any help. She loves science and is so excited about teaching - or at least she was. I've been scouring the net for help, but I'm not even sure what to look for (and I've read so many great articles with wonderful ideas, but just aren't applicable to her situation) - so I thought finding a community of actual teachers (as opposed to articles & other 1 sided things) might be it.

Any advice will be GREATLY appreciated. Maybe ...See More
Nicole Sorry I cannot offer any advice hopefully someone in the group can. Only thing I can say is she has to keep trying to find away to connect to her students. Pinterest has great ideas, and also as other teachers whom are not in her school. Does she have a mentor teacher who can offer advice?

On 10/05/15, Caileigh wrote: > Hope it's OK if ...See More
Oct 5, 2015
Math Teach A good reference book would be "Middle and Secondary School Classroom Management" by Carol Weinstein. I used this as a reference for a paper I wrote for a new teacher program in my state.

On 10/05/15, Caileigh wrote: > Hope it's OK if I post here... I have a friend who is a newly > certified teacher in her first job. She wa...See More
Oct 5, 2015


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