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From First-Year to First-Rate: Principals Guiding Beginning Teachers

Item # 065

By Barbara L. Brock & Marilyn L. Grady

A best-seller updated for today's educational landscape!

Principals hold the key to the professional development of beginning teachers. When they are successful, so are the students and the school. This best-selling handbook, updated to meet the challenges facing new teachers today, guides administrators in developing a first-year induction plan to help teachers succeed and become first-rate educators.

New or expanded areas in this second edition:

Expanded: Real-life problems facing every new teacher
Expanded: Actual experiences of first-year teachers-in their own voices
New: Self-assessment tools for principals
New: Strategies for integrating induction into career-long development
Updated: References to data sources, activities, and assessment tools
A successful beginning is critical to a teacher's career as well as to the education of students. From the initial orientation, to strategies for measuring program success, to career-long development -this updated and easy-to-incorporate guide will be an essential resource for administrators to help bring out the best in both new teachers and veteran teachers transferring into a new school.
(Corwin Press, 2001)