The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
by Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong
This book provides a wealth of information for all teachers. It contains information on how to be a successful teacher, how to create a positive environment, classroom management ideas, how to be a professional and much more.
Mutual Respect
Children and Respect
by University of Maine Cooperative Extension – Family Issues Facts
This article describe what respect is, provides examples of what children feel is respectful and disrespectful and provides seven tips on how we might educate children to respect themselves and others.
Mutual Respect
by Family Education
Schools that value good communication between the home and school
must develop ways to maintain contact with the parent over time in a way
that builds mutural respect.
Guidance--The Heart of Education: Three Exemplary Approaches
by Eric Digest
This article discusses three approaches schools can use to reach out to students. One of the three models discussed is William Purkey's Invitational Learning Model, which focuses on a new paradigm for schooling that seeks to reconstitute the entire school setting so that every aspect of the school serves to "invite" students to learn by respecting them…
Maintaining Professionalism
Top 10 Tips for Student Teachers
These tips can aid student teachers (as well as new and experienced teachers) as they begin their first teaching assignments. These are not suggestions for how to approach the students but instead for how to most effectively succeed in your new teaching environment.
Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board
EPSB is the standards and accreditation agency for Kentucky teachers and
administrators and for programs of education at Kentucky colleges and
universities.
Are You A Professional?
by TipsForSuccess.org
This site identifies characteristics of a professional and compares it to the characteristics of an amateur.
Creating a Positive Classroom Environment
Creating Positive Classroom Environments
This site provides suggestions and strategies for maintaining positive classroom environments that facilitate high rates of student success.