Consultant Workshop Topics: Supporting Beginning Teachers
Below is a listing of workshop topics related to supporting beginning teachers and the consultants available to present a workshop at your school or in your district. Click on the consultant name to learn more about their consulting experiences, publications, and professional experiences.
Supporting Beginning Teachers through Critical Junctures
Concultant: Thomas McCann
Audience: 6–12 Teachers and Leaders; English Education Instructors and Supervisors
The workshop examines research about the major concerns of beginning teachers and their strategies for successfully coping with challenging episodes in teaching. Workshop discussion focuses on ways that schools and teacher preparation programs can work together to support new teachers in navigating a series of critical junctures in the early stages of their career.
Teaming to Teach: Learning and Growing through Collaboration
Concultant: Thomas McCann
Audience: 6–12 Teachers and Leaders; English Education Instructors and Supervisors
The workshop reveals a model of teacher preparation and teacher practice that encourages collaboration and interdependence. The participants will examine an alternative to conventional student teaching and will share a plan for moving practitioners away from isolation and toward community.
Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching: Finding Voice, Support, and Joy
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: Tailored to each audience, this workshop/presentation can be conducted for a range of educational stakeholders (new and experienced teachers, administrators, mentors, job-seekers, directors of induction programs, and new teachers) or sessions can be developed for individual groups (just new teachers, just administrators, just mentors, etc).
Some examples of workshop variations include:
- Supporting New Teachers: A Workshop for School and District Administrators
- Hanging On to the Vision: A Workshop for New Teachers and Their Colleagues
- Seeking Jobs and Sustaining Your Vision: A Workshop for Prospective Teachers
- Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching: A Workshop for New Teachers, Their Colleagues, and Administrators
Drawing from their book, Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching (NCTE, 2006), Susi and one or more members of her group of co-authors (teacher-researchers who studied their first six years of teaching - Ami Abramson, April Boone, Carly Borchelt, Robbie Kalish, Erin Miller, Julie Parks, and Carmen Tisdale) share real world stories about the barriers and the support they found in bringing their visions of great teaching to life. For new teachers this workshop lets them know that they are not alone and that, even when they feel the least empowered, they are making a difference. Stories from new teachers include: The Being Perfect Disease, Juggling Work and Life, Struggling to Engage Every Child, The Love-Hate Relationship With Professional Books, and Wanting to Fit In, among many others. For job seekers, the workshop provides advice to use as they seek jobs and engage in job interviews. Workshops also provide a wealth of specific suggestions for school and district administrators, mentors and colleagues of new teachers, and university faculty to support new teachers. Click here to view photos of this group of teacher researchers at work.
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