THE CHALLENGES THAT A NEW TEACHER NEED TO OVERCOME

The biggest challenges new teachers faces are in three key areas: support, discipline, and classroom management. These questions will help you focus your efforts to overcome the challenges.

Support. This is the first thing that a new teacher or any person new in any field should find because through the given support of the family, friends and colleagues you can easily answer the following qu er i es:

•Is there a new teacher orientation program?

•Are school policies and procedures in writing for new teachers? •Does a new teacher have an assigned mentor teacher? Do they meet weekly?

•Does a new teacher’s administrator check in with her frequently? •Are colleagues available weekly for team or grade-level meeti n gs?

•Do teachers plan together or assist a new teacher with planning? Discipline. It is also one of the important things that a new teacher should prepare so that he/ she cannot find hard time in teaching. One’s the teacher overcome the proper discipline among his/ her students he/she will not gain a proper.

•Are a new teacher's students respectful toward one another and their teacher?

•Does she have rules in place that she reinforces?

•Are there logical consequences for students who don't follow the r u l es?

•Does a new teacher's class move around the building in an orderly way?

•Does she know how to handle difficult students and situations? Does she know when to ask for support?

Classroom Management. A new teacher should be prepare in facing the students and what she will be doing in classroom, dealing with his students with different approaches and strategies. Teacher must possess/answers to following questions and apply them. •Is a new teacher well-organized? Does he follow a schedule? •Are systems in place that make the school day run smoothly? •Does a new teacher work effectively with assistants and other adults in the classroom?

•Is time used effectively? Is pacing appropriate for a given class? •Does a new teacher advocate for his students?

•Is a new teacher sensitive to diverse learners?

•Are all students treated fairly without regard for race, gender, socioeconomic status, and so on?

•Is a new teacher able to multitask?

--oOo-The author is from Bamban, Tarlac, Division of Tarlac Province