Your First Year of Teaching: Guidelines for Success is a collection of strategies on how to succeed and thrive during your first year of teaching. This brief, practical text presents guidelines on how to manage your first day, differentiate instruction, cope with high-stakes testing, deal with parents and colleagues, set a homework policy, manage disruptive behavior, and other challenges. This is a book you should keep close at hand for a year that promises to be both challenging and exhilarating. NEW TO THE FOURTH EDITION bull; bull;Expanded and Revised sections on: Accommodating Student Differences: Recognizing and Working with Specific Learners Motivational Ideas: Build your Repertoire Parent and Guardian Contacts and Involvement: Leaving No Parent/Guardian Behind bull; bull;Additional Teaching in Practice scenarios dealing with: Games in the classroom and the underperforming student Using blogs to encourage student writing A high school physics teacher who knew very little about physics A teacher making significant changes in her classroom atmosphere bull; bull;New topics include: Field Trip: Planning for Success Physical Education Teachable Moments: Be Ready to Recognize, Catch and Run with Them Value Difference: Avoid Being Judgmental bull; bull;Updated References and Recommended Readings