Becoming Coco

From First Year Teacher to Best Teacher Ever! How Can it Be Done? So you just started, or are about to start your first teaching job and you want to do everything you can to help your students. You’ve learned how to give assessments and use them to drive instruction, the basics of classroom management, how to teach each subject and differentiate for special needs and individual learning styles, you even learned a variety of activities or organization ideas that you want to implement. How do you synthesize this learning now and put it towards actually teaching? But wait, you don’t just want to do the minimum and rely only on what you have learned in school. No, you want to be a great teacher, the best teacher! You want students to be engaged in every lesson, to have fun learning even traditionally “dull” subjects, to love learning and become lifelong learners! You want your students to understand math concepts, not just memorize algorithms. You want students to use acade...