Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Learning Your Way Around the School
2. Organizing Your Classroom
3. Knowing Your Students
4. Beginning and Ending School on the First Day
5. Developing Meaningful Curriculum
6. Planning Instruction and Assessment
7. Establishing Routine and Management
8. Valuing Cultural Diversity
9. Using Instructional Technology
10. Developing as a Professional
11. Connecting With Students
12. Communicating With Parents
13. Using a Substitute
14. Getting Involved With the School
Reflections
References and Readings
Index
Ellen Kottler, Ed.S., has been a teacher for over 30 years in
public and private schools, alternative schools, adult education
programs, and universities. She has worked in inner-city schools as
well as in suburban and rural settings. She was a curriculum
specialist in charge of secondary social studies and law-related
education for one of the country’s largest school districts. Ellen
is the author or coauthor of several books for educators, including
Secrets for Secondary School Teachers: How to Succeed in Your First
Year, On Being a Teacher, Secrets for Beginning Elementary School
Teachers, Counseling Skills for Teachers, English Language Learners
in Your Classroom: Strategies That Work, Secrets to Success for
Science Teachers, and Students Who Drive You Crazy: Succeeding with
Resistant, Unmotivated, and Otherwise Difficult Young People.
She teaches secondary education and supervises intern teachers at
California State University, Fullerton.
Nancy P. Gallavan, Ph.D., is Professor of Teacher Education at the
University of Central Arkansas where she specializes in classroom
assessments and cultural competence in the Department of Teaching
and Learning MAT Program, which she helped to start in 2006. The
UCA MAT Program was recognized as the Distinguished Program in
Teacher Education by the Association of Teacher Educators in 2010.
Dr. Gallavan also serves as the UCA Academic Liaison to
Institutional Diversity.
Receiving university and college awards for her teaching,
scholarship, and service, Dr. Gallavan has expertise in K-12
education, classroom assessments, curriculum development, cultural
competence, social studies education, and teacher self-efficacy.
With more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in journals, as
chapters in books, and as books, Dr. Gallavan authored two versions
of Developing Performance-Based Assessments, one for Grades K-5 and
one for Grades 6-12 with Corwin Press in 2009. She also authored
two versions of Navigating Cultural Competence: A Compass for
Teachers, one for Grades K-5 and one for Grades 6-12 with Corwin
Press in 2011. With Ellen Kottler, she co-authored Secrets to
Success for Beginning Elementary School Teachers with Corwin Press
in 2007 and Secrets to Success for Social Studies Teachers with
Corwin Press in 2008. Most of these books have been republished in
multiple languages.
Her research agenda focuses on classroom assessments and teacher
self-efficacy. Her chapter, “If you want your students to change,
then you need to change: Mediating the sources and benefits of
teacher self-efficacy with teacher candidates,” will be published
in the Handbook of Research on Professional Development for Quality
Teaching and Learning in 2016. Dr. Gallavan serves as the editor of
the Arkansas Association of Teacher Educators Electronic Journal
(ArATE EJ) and co-editor of the Association of Teacher Educators
(ATE) Annual Yearbook of Research.
An active member of American Educational Research Association
(AERA), Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), Kappa Delta Pi
(KDP), National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), and
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), she is involved
with the AERA Classroom Assessment Special Interest Group and
serves as Chair of the ATE Commission of Online Teaching, Learning,
and Schooling. Dr. Gallavan is a Past President and a Distinguished
Member of the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), a Kappa Delta
Pi (KDP) Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Chapter inaugural member, and a
member of Phi Delta Phi (education honor society).
Prior to joining the University of Central Arkansas, Dr. Gallavan
was an Assistant/Associate Professor with the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, specializing in social studies education and cultural
competence. She began her career in education as an elementary
school and middle level classroom teacher primarily in the Cherry
Creek School District in Colorado. She earned her undergraduate
degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Literacy from
Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State
University); her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction with
an emphasis in Gifted and Talented Education from the University of
Colorado, Boulder; her school administrator license from the
University of Colorado, Denver; and her doctoral degree in
Curriculum Leadership with a cognate in Cultural Competence from
the University of Denver. At the University of Denver, she received
the Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Dissertation Award.
"Kottler and Gallavan prepare new teachers for all the daily
obstacles and rewards of the profession in a way that can be easily
implemented. The tone is heartwarming and the authors empathize
with the frustrations and needs of new teachers."
*Lori L. Grossman, Instructional Coordinator*
"A must have for all new teachers. The material is useful and will
make your transition into teaching easier and more successful."
*Miranda Moe, Kindergarten Teacher/New Teacher Facilitator*
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