William Dandy Middle School had a wonderful two-day orientation with their New Educators. This year we had 24 new teachers to the school. Our principal, Casandra D. Robinson, provided all of the teachers a binder with important information. She also provided us lunch both days. The new teachers were introduced to the various key personnel in the school as a part of our two day workshop.
One segment was to watch Harry Wong tape #3 and then pair up and make a set of class rules. They then presented them to the group and we were able to critique each set. It helped the New Educators, nine of which are Level 1, to understand how important it is to set the tone in the class the first day. Another activity we were able to provide was a power point slide show of classroom setups. Last year I had our technology specialist photograph various classrooms of veteran teachers. New Educators were then able to see the prominence of classroom rules, what a word wall looks like in different subject areas, how to arrange seating and just get a general feel of how to make the classroom print rich and a positive learning environment.
Source: Claire Noonan, NESS Liaison William Dandy Middle
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