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Reflections First Year Teachers 11 RE: Questions, Hopes, and Challenges (New Directio Ns for School Leadership, Mngrph 11, July 99 Sl) - Softcover

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Synopsis

The first year of teaching provides a plethora of challenges for all who choose this demanding and rewarding profession. In this volume of New Directions for School Leadership, five beginning public school teachers share lessons learned from teaching, writing, and reflecting together on their introductory experiences. These authors give voice to the first-year teacher's frustrations and revelations, detailing their struggles with complacency and bureaucracy, their efforts to teach students to think, and the growth they experienced through professional collaboration.This is the 11th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for School Leadership, sponsored by the International Network of Principals' Centers.

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About the Author

MORGAEN L. DONALDSON teaches humanities at the Boston Arts Academy, a public high school for the arts in Boston, Massachusetts. BRIAN POON is presently teaching philosophy, gAnder studies, and world history at Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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The first year of teaching provides a plethora of challenges for all who choose this demanding and rewarding profession. In this volume of New Directions for School Leadership, five beginning public school teachers share lessons learned from teaching, writing, and reflecting together on their introductory experiences. These authors give voice to the first-year teacher?s frustrations and revelations, detailing their struggles with complacency and bureaucracy, their efforts to teach students to think, and the growth they experienced through professional collaboration.

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The first year of teaching provides a plethora of challenges for all who choose this demanding and rewarding profession. In this volume of New Directions for School Leadership, five beginning public school teachers share lessons learned from teaching, writing, and reflecting together on their introductory experiences. These authors give voice to the first-year teacher's frustrations and revelations, detailing their struggles with complacency and bureaucracy, their efforts to teach students to think, and the growth they experienced through professional collaboration.

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