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previously mentioned. Avoid her like the plague. There are too many teaching positions that will open with supportive and effective administrative leadership.

Should a new teacher decide to pay his or her dues at a school with a less than administrative friendly atmosphere, or if somehow one has unwittingly landed at in a similar school structure all a new teacher may simply do their best to do their jobs. As previously stated, find out what your principals expects and follow those guidelines. When a new teacher becomes unsure If they are seemingly impossibly seek out the ones that best serve your students. and seek and do not panic
Faculty Hand Book

An excellent resource for teachers getting acclimated to the leadership expectations at their school will find information first hand in their faculty handbook. Everything from school rules, consequences, dress code, drill procedures etc., personal days and are all spelled out. Read it and refer to it. There's nothing more annoying for a principal who is dealing with the daily deluge of the parent, students and paperwork parade around and across their desk then a new teacher asking what measures need to be taken to get a personal day.

First Day Procedures

Other important information that will be presented by either the principal or assistant principal will be the first day procedures. New teachers should take notes and be sure to listen. You will receive information from bus duty posts to blood board pathogen instructions. Keep all first day procedure notes and paperwork separate from all other information. Teachers should put together a file or small binder and label it 'First Day Procedures', then review and organize it a day or two before big event. New teachers may also want to do a walk through the day before. For example, often times sixth grade students will be picked up at certain area such as the cafeteria and escorted to their classrooms by their teachers since the first day may be frightfully bewildering to them. Bringing a file and keeping all first day procedure papers together will assist in allowing a first day of joy and excitement rather than stress and confusion.

There will definitely be a list of forms to be sent home and signed by mom. Keep a check list of your homeroom and period rosters like the example below. Mark the date you distributed the form. Collect the forms at the beginning of each class period and then simply check off each form as they are returned. To ensure that forms are returned in a timely manner it is helpful to offer students incentive. Such as if the forms are returned by such and such a date, students will received 100% for their first assignment grade. (As discussed later in the chapter on grading, assignments are usually a smaller percentage of students grades than quizzes, tests and projects. This will help you check papers off as they go out and come in.

Often, for the first days or week, the attendance procedure may vary from the norm so your principal can get accurate numbers of the students who will attend.

Take note that blood born pathogen safety procedures are usually presented by your principal or assistant principal during these meetings. Many illnesses today including the HIV virus is transmitted through bodily fluids, mainly blood. Your administration will want you to know how to handle a situation that falls under this he