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Hello! What activities and tips do you have for a first-time teacher with no experience?
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I think this article from the Chronicle is a great read.
This Point of View from the NSTA's Journal of College Science Teaching is inspiring, as well.
If there is not a formal mentoring program set up, ask the Principal (or your supervisor) who a good person to approach might be.
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Emily,
That article was very helpful. I am definetly going to try some of those at the beginning of next school year.
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I would first suggest becoming familiar with the state standards and the curriculum the school uses. Then, use those resources to create your own lessons that correspond to the standards. Then, I would come up with a daily schedule so you know exactly when you will implement those lessons and can have the materials needed ready beforehand.
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I definitely agree that looking at the standards or any required curriculum is a great way to begin. Being prepared and knowing what is required is necessary for any subject. Once you know the standards, finding activities is the easy part. You can find a lot of great lessons on NSTA that also align with the NGSS 5E/3D model.
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Hi Ryan,
I am also a new teacher. You say 'finding activities is the easy part'. Could you please give me some examples of this? I am finding the admonition that I am just supposed to use the internet to do lesson planning a little discouraging. Do you have a list of good sources of lesson planning?
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I will be an upcoming teacher in the future and I feel these tips and suggestions are very useful, thanks!
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I usually think about starting with a phenomena that I think the students would find interesting, then work from there. For example, instead of teaching about the digestive system in biology, make a unit on diarrhea- students find that a lot more interesting. In chemistry there are a lot of cool demos or authentic reactions that you can work from (think soap, grain bin explosions, etc) There are also a lot of great websites that list cool phenomena as either achoring or lesson-level phenomena.
Develop some driving questions to set your trajectory and then simply set up environments/activities where students make sense of those phenomena and figure things out. There are some good examples of units out there. NGSS Storylines has one here.
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I will be a new teacher hopefully by next year! Thank you for the responses and I'm looking forward on doing more research on this topic
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Become familiar with the standars and scope and sequence of your state/district. Search the topic and put your own spin on the teaching style. get to know your kids..i hav tauht in two districts and they way i teach some things is different based on the kids.
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