Teaching Tips for New Teachers

Jennifer Wagaman, Photograph by Damien Wagaman

Posted by
Jennifer Wagaman
Feb 12, 2009

New teachers have a lot on their plate the first year and beyond, and will come across many issues on a daily basis. While many of these issues are resolved through classroom management and trial and error, there are some specific ways to handle many of the problems that come up in order to prevent them from happening again, and improve your teaching in the classroom. Here are some tips:

Teach Students to Take More Responsibility

Prevent Students from Cheating

Help Students Stay Focused

What to Do About Unfinished Student Work

How to Be Prepared for Student Absences

In addition, learning how to teach to different learning styles will greatly improve your teaching skills.

Find more tips for teachers that may be helpful, as well as help for common teacher issues.

Also check out www.321learn.net, where teachers will find tips and suggestions for every issue they will face.

May 8, 2009 2:16 AM

Guest :

I am nearly at the end of my first year of teaching, and i am really having a hard time with some students' lack of responsibility. I have tried reward systems, talking to them, sending them to the principal, I am all out of ideas. I wreck my brain every day thinking of ways to try to make these students more responsible, and some how, for some reason, there are still some that are not even slightly phased by my efforts.

May 8, 2009 5:04 AM

Jennifer Wagaman :

I would suggest that you look at my eBook resource: Classroom Management 101. It contains strategies that teachers have used successfully all across the country in order to get students to behave in class and the same strategies would work well to promote more responsibility. You can find the resource here: http://www.321learn.net/resources/ebooks/classroom-management-101/