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Q&A Collections: Entering the Teaching Profession

By Larry Ferlazzo — August 26, 2017 2 min read
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I’ll begin posting new questions and answers in early September, and during the summer will be sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past six years. You can see all those collections from the first five years here.

Here are the ones I’ve posted so far:

This Year’s Most Popular Q&A Posts

Classroom Management Advice

Race & Gender Challenges

Implementing The Common Core

Best Ways To Begin The School Year

Best Ways To End The School Year

Student Motivation & Social Emotional Learning

Teaching Social Studies

Project-Based Learning

Using Tech In The Classroom

Parent Engagement In Schools

Teaching English Language Learners

Student Assessment

Brain-Based Learning

Reading Instruction

Writing Instruction

Education Policy Issues

Differentiating Instruction

Math Instruction

Science Instruction

Advice For New Teachers

Author Interviews

Today’s theme is Entering the Teaching Profession. You can see the list following this excerpt from one of them:

* Advice on Making a Mid-Career Change to Teaching

Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Jeri Asaro, Val Brown, Pia Wong, Megan Allen, and Anne Jenks share their advice to those considering a mid-career change into the teaching profession.

* Career-Changers Are ‘Attractive Teaching Candidates’

Dr. Jenny Grant Rankin, Marcy Webb, Otis Kriegel, Peter P. Leibman, and Karla St. John contribute their thoughts on people considering making a mid-career change into the teaching profession. I’ve also included several comments from readers.

* Seven Strategies For Working With Student Teachers

This final post in the series features what I think is a particularly interesting combination—a quest response from Ted Appel, the principal of the inner-city school where I teach, who describes the innovative requirements he insisted upon if a university was interested in placing student teachers with us; followed by a commentary from Pia Lindquist Wong, director of a university teaching credentials program who found that her ideas dovetailed with those of Ted’s—the two then developed a partnership.

* Student Teachers ‘Should be Colleagues’

Emily Geltz, Linda Rief, Carol Ann Tomlinson, Jessica Bennett and Jane Fung contribute to this post.

* Letting Student Teachers ‘Sink or Swim’ Is ‘Not Permissible’

Michael Opitz and Michael Ford; PJ Caposey; Patty O’Grady; and Sally Zepeda all share their advice to student teachers and their supervisors.

* What Principals Look For in a Prospective Teacher

High school principal Eric Sheninger, middle school principal Pete Hall, and superintendent Pamela Moran share their advice.

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