New+Teachers

Information on this page is devoted to supporting new teachers in their first year.

__**Online Resources**__
 * [|Can Novice Teachers Differentiate Instruction? Yes, They Can!]
 * [|MiddleWeb New Middle School Teacher Guide]
 * [|Advice to Beginning Educators]
 * [|Teachers' Network: New Teachers]
 * [|Scholastic New Teacher]
 * [|Beginning Teachers' Toolbox]
 * [|U.S. Department of Education Survival Guide for New Teachers]
 * [|What to Expect Your First Year]
 * [|General Teaching Resources]
 * [|Rubistar Customizable Rubrics]
 * [|TeAchnology Rubric Resources]
 * [|Kathy Schrock Rubric Guide]
 * [|Rubrics4Teachers]
 * [|SCORE Language Arts Rubrics]
 * [[file:Lesson Plan Model.doc]]
 * [[file:Lesson Plan Model Blank.doc]]

[|Instructional I to Instructional II]
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 * [[file:Requirements for an Instructional II certificate .doc]]
 * [[file:FORMPDE338G.pdf]]
 * [[file:FORM338P.pdf]]
 * [[file:CBSD - PDE 427- Overall Justification for Assessment.doc]]

__Technology Integrations__

 * ==Technology Information for new Central Bucks Faculty==
 * ==Join the Discovery Educator Network to access nearly unlimited resources to empower you to integrate technology into your instruction.==
 * Access other technology integration ideas on the Technology page of our wiki.
 * [|unitedstreaming]
 * Check out Jen Dorman's wiki for information about podcasts, blogs, wikis, digital storytelling, and social learning networks
 * Convert your Word and Excel documents to PDF files that open on any computer in Adobe Acrobat for free with [|ExpressPDF]
 * If you would like to create your own wiki for professional and/or class use, wikispaces is offering free add-free [|wikis for K-12 teachers]
 * Do you want to learn about lots of other cool online open-source applications? Visit Jen's Diigo group, [|Engaging Digital Natives].

Here are a few interesting articles (//well, Jen thinks that they are interesting because she wrote them//) about the impact of technology in education:


 * [|A More Reliable Wikipedia]
 * [|Wikinomics and the Future School]
 * [|Do you Diigo?]
 * [|EdTech Trends]
 * [|How to Bring Schools Out of the 20th Century]

//Using Digital Stories and Documentaries to Encourage Higher Order Thinking in the 21st Century//
[|Discovery Classroom Resource Guide: Digital Storytelling] [|Cool Tools: History With a Twist]- check out the //Creating Digital War Stories// article that appears as part of the Discovery Education Classroom Resource Guide

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 * [|Six Common Mistakes (and what to do about them)]
 * [|Ten Steps to Develop a Quality Lesson Plan]
 * [|Basic Lesson Plan Elements]
 * [|Lesson Closure]
 * [|Lesson Plan Formats]
 * [|How to Develop a Lesson Plan]
 * [|Madeline Hunter's Lesson Plan]
 * [|How to Write Learning Objectives]
 * [|Lesson Plan Study]
 * [[file:Lesson Plan Model.doc]]
 * [[file:Lesson Plan Model Blank.doc]]
 * [[file:WritingObjectives.doc]]
 * [[file:lessonplan.pdf]]
 * [[file:Questions to help analyze a lesson.doc]]
 * [[file:Instructional Methods Information.doc]]
 * [[file:Active Learning Instructional Strategies.doc]]
 * [[file:THE TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES.doc]]
 * [[file:Closure.doc]]
 * [[file:Lesson Planning NTM Wiki.ppt]]

__**Advice From Your Mentors**__

 * Be sure to maintain both digital and paper records of student grades (just in case.)