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5.Facilitating the creation positive partnerships with parents, and show you how to turn the most difficult parent into your most valuable ali. Define, provide ideas, and offer samples and templates for academic teams, interdisciplinary units, and departmental planning.

6. Comprehending the driving rational behind federal laws such as ESOL, the No Child Left Behind Act, and various special education laws and their affects on mandated testing.

7.How to ensure your students meet the adequate yearly progress as dictated by mandated testing while maintaining an effective, fun, and creative learning environment.

8.Numerous resources such websites that offer free teacher instructional ideas and pod casts, appropriate and high interest novel suggestions for middle school students, and samples and templates for lesson plans, and units, and many other forms.

This book is the GPS that will help you maneuver around your middle school neighborhood. I bid you a promising farewell on an adventurous journey. I hope you will find it as meaningful as I have.

Teachers and Money

Teacher Compensation

Let it be said that there are lots of benefits to teaching. It is highly likely if you have made it this far you understand money is not one of them. If somehow you have missed that piece of information, a good suggestion would be to put this book down and go buy a copy of What Color is My Parachute. There is nothing wrong with be willing work hard for finer things in life. Unfortunately, the effort and expertise expended by teachers, far out way the compensation received. Education in the United States is government run and so the bulk of decisions are made by elected officials. Although there is a lot of rhetoric spewed around about the importance of highly paid professional teachers, in reality, increasing educational funding is very often low on a politician's priority list. Influential parents regularly send their children to private school and therefore, public school funding is merely a tiny bleep of little consequence on the radar of their children's future. Shameful? Maybe, but, while politicians twirl around the latest and supposedly low cost teaching trends, educators in the United States have produced some of the most significant leaders of our time.

With that said, districts do, in fact, offer many monetary benefits and although teachers will not reach six figures on teaching alone, it is a decent living. There is more good news; although, certainly not mandatory, flexible hours and summers allow teachers to supplement their income through other avenues, some of which are addressed in Chapter 14. This makes teaching a very attractive career for individuals whose hobbies, such as writing, art, and software design, may not provide fulltime living. And, finally, teachers are historically able to retire quite comfortably on a stable income.

Pay Scales

Payroll may fall under different departments depending on the size of the district. It may be in accounting, human resources, risk management, or in bigger districts, simply payroll. You will most certainly want to be familiar with this particular department.

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