Embrace Challenge!

The Challenge of being an Educator

Education: being a teacher

This part of the website is designed to provide information that may be useful to student or newish teachers. The original pages were written by a former science teacher, thus most of the links eminating from this page talk about teaching science. This website is also open for other teachers to share advice and more! If you want to share small comments, please put them on the message board. If you want to share lots of info, then contact the webmaster to request space.

Things to think about anticipating day 1

• Day 1 part 1
• Day 1 part 2

Things to consider when observing other teachers

Things to have set up before students show up

Things to be sure to cover the first week

Surviving month 1

Preparing for a substitute

How to accomodate students who enter class late (days or weeks after the term starts) (under construction)

How to work with students who are absent (under construction)

General suggestions for classroom management

End of year advice/ideas

Advice from students or other educators (email me your words of advice for teachers)

Links to science teacher and general support websites

List of just general teacher-centered websites

NSTA archive

My biotech stuff

Chemistry stuff

Pictures of my brain

Personal advice and opinions

A small list about cya

Angles this section of the website takes:

The website is hosted by a former science teacher and therefore will naturally cater to science teaching more than other disciplines

You can also check out the general education links or the Science Education Links page for links to other websites that are “out there” to support teachers.  Many provide much more information than is provided here.