Great Expectations!

By Dr. Jane BluesteinAugust 12, 2012May 31, 2022 Avoiding burnout, Beginning Teachers, Behavior Management, Behavior Management, Building responsibility, Classroom management, Creating community, Culture and Community, Discipline, Educators, Learning, Professional growth, Relationships, Self-care and Inspiration, Teaching becoming part of a professional community, beginning teachers, building student responsibility, difficult students, encouraging cooperation, fitting in with the school staff, motivating students, new teachers, power dynamics, professional growth, reflective teaching, student success, successful teaching, transition from student to professional, win-win teaching 2 Comments

Good News for Beginning Teachers No one knows better than a first year teacher that the beginning of the school year bristles with anticipation—and not just for the kids.

Book: Becoming a Win-Win Teacher

By Dr. Jane BluesteinAugust 3, 2012June 1, 2022 Assessment and Testing, Avoiding power struggles, Beginning Teachers, Behavior Management, Behavior Management, Books, bookstore, Bookstore, Building responsibility, Classroom management, Creating community, Culture and Community, Discipline, Emotionally safe schools, Increasing Positivity, Intervening negative behavior, Learning, Mentorship, Motivating cooperation, Non-traditional learners, Parent-Teacher relationships, Problem solving, Recognition and reinforcement, Rules and Boundaries, Schools in Society, Teaching, Teaching, Uncategorized, Win-win authority avoiding power struggles, becoming a part of a school community, beginning teachers, behavior management, building responsibility, creating community, discipline, emotionally safe schools, intervening negative behavior, learning, mentorship, motivating cooperation, non-traditional learning, parents as allies, positivity, proactivity, problem solving, recognition and reinforcement, rules and boundaries, schools in society, survival guide, the school community, win-win authority, win-win classroom, win-win teaching, working with parents in school Leave a comment

A Guide for First-Year Teachers by Dr. Jane Bluestein This book is no longer in print. For an updated and revised version of this book, please see The Beginning Teacher’s Survival Guide, available in print and Kindle versions. This book was 8 1/2” x 11”, 288 pages. $42.95. The updated release is $13.99 for print on…