Creating Your Teaching Plan

Creating Your Teaching Plan: A Guide for Effective Teaching was written to provide you with numerous practical research-based ideas which you can use in your particular classroom setting. It contains tried and tested strategies to help you be successful whether you're a new teacher one returning after an absence or an experienced teacher looking for new methods. This worktext is organized around five critical areas necessary for successful teaching: • Starting the Year • Planning • Monitoring and Assessing Learning • Managing the Classroom • Enhancing Reading/Literacy Skills After you have completed the activities in this worktext you will have a written plan for starting your year. This is not a guarantee that the year will be easy or successful but you will have developed the foundation necessary to enhance student learning.