STOP! You have found what you are looking for. Everything you need to start primary school teaching feeling confident and prepared is right here.
A Survival Guide for Beginning Primary School Teachers will have you set up, organise and ready to face, with confidence, the start of a new school year. It's an Australian book that covers all the important topics like: behaviour management, strategies for difficult students, discipline plans, parent communication information, setting up your classroom, recording & assessment, things you need to have prepared & questions you need to ask before you start, a first day plan and if that is not enough you also receive 5 weeks of lessons to follow or adapt until you get your head around all those detailed curriculum documents.
Also available are New Quick Resources to assist you even further.
- 5 Minute Fillers
- Addition and Subtraction Strategies
- Alphabet Sound and Letter Assessment
- Reading Conference Worksheet
- Reading Intervention Lessons
- Whole School Assessment Overview
- Welcome Letter
- Strategies for Reluctant Writers
- Getting to Know Your Students
Available on the Resources - Buy Resources menu.
'A Survival Guide for Beginning Primary School Teachers would make a wonderful Graduation Present for any Beginning Teacher'
My first term of teaching was such a blur and I was totally unprepared for the amount of extra work that I had to prepare. A Survival Guide for Beginning Primary School Teachers was truly an amazing support in helping me get started. A great resource to have in your toolkit.
James Bray, Year 2 teacher
Kari Finsen is an Australian Primary School Teacher with over 16 years experience in primary school teaching and lecturing in education.
She has developed this handbook for you as a complete guide to getting started in teaching. It helps alleviate a lot of stress by guiding you through the unknown. It will get you set up, organised and ready to deal with behaviour management in a confident way. It will also give you five weeks of ready to use weekly plans which are able to be saved directly to your computer. This resource is simply a 'must have' for every new Australian primary school teacher.
The resource for new Australian primary school teachers
There is no other guide for new teachers produced in Australia that is specifically designed to assist beginning primary school teachers to get established quickly in a new school environment.
This book is the best support that you, a new primary school teacher can have in those first, most challenging weeks in your first classroom.
Kari understands that starting to teach in a new primary school classroom can be very daunting, scary, and stressful. It can be straight out difficult.
That is why she has put together this guide which will make starting out in your first classroom much easier. Kari believes that it will help give you the knowlege you need to teach confidently from your first class.
This guide provides the practical information that is missing from primary school education textbooks. It has been written by an Australian primary school teacher with over 16 years experience in primary school teaching and lecturing primary school education students at university.
The book is the result of years of listening to the problems and feedback of Australian education students in relation to starting as a new primary school teacher. It also contains all the thoughts, ideas and materials that Kari has accumulated throughout her teaching career in Australian primary schools.
What you will find in this book
- Everything you need to do before the school year begins
- What you need to obtain on the first Student Free Day
- The essential things to have in a Primary School Classroom
- A complete list of the resources and equipment that you should have ready before your students start on their first day in the classroom
- All the essential things you really need to know about professional communication with the parents of your primary school students
- Behaviour management strategies that work - from a primary school teacher with more than 16 years experience
- Ready to use and effective discipline plans appropriate for Australian primary school students in both public and private schooling
- How to deal with difficult students in your classroom - essential for the new primary school teacher to know before you start teaching
- Things to do in the first week
- What you need to know about records and assessment before you start teaching
- A complete break down of your first day in the classroom - all you need to do is follow our guide - put together in hourly blocks - ready to use in your classroom
- A complete 5 week language unit on Australia Day with brief lesson plans
There is more in the book including useful classroom learning activities for a range of curriculum areas. Junior school reading activities and strategies, handwriting and language overviews etc. Whilst these are most helpful please be aware that these few pages may not be completely insync with the new National Curriculum when it becomes fully implemented.
If you are a new primary school / junior school teacher and you purchase this book and do not find it useful - send the book back within 30 days for a full refund.
My money back guarantee
I am confident that A Survival Guide for Beginning Primary School Teachers is an invaluable resource for every new Australian teacher. If you are not satisfied with the book return it to me within 30 days and get a 100% refund.
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