You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers

I firmly believe that what will make you a master teacher is not the advice I give you; what will make you a master teacher is that you figure out how to solve those challenges on your own, in your own way. From the Preface As a new teacher you face numerous challenges. Right from the start you must learn how to manage a class full of restless students; develop productive relationships with fellow teachers, administrators, and parents; and design engaging lesson plans that will meet ever-increasing levels of accountability all while building a life for yourself in the process. It can be overwhelming and sometimes you can feel like youre all alone. And yet, you came to this profession because you want to make a difference. How do you juggle the demands of the profession and find your own voice, your own teaching style, your own teaching self? The good news is that you can do this. In this down-to-earth, inspirational book, bestselling author Robyn Jackson offers encouragement and real-world advice for navigating those difficult years as a beginning teacher. Sharing stories from her own humbling first years as a new teacher, Robyn helps you tackle challenges such as motivating students, planning effective lessons, building relationships with parents, bouncing back from embarrassing mistakes, and finding your own authority as a teacher. She also helps you find success outside the classroom with practical pointers for living on a teachers salary and carving out time to have a life of your own. With candor and a good deal of wit, she gently guides you to develop your own teaching style and, ultimately, to find your own path toward mastery. Robyn speaks to new educators as a trusted mentor, one who knows how to navigate the tricky terrain of new teacherdomand knows how rich and rewarding the payoff will be. If youre new to the profession or know someone about to embark on a teaching career, You Can Do This is the essential roadmap to succeeding as a new educator both inside and outside the classroom.

About the Author :
With an early introduction to singing and drama, Tami Romani found her love for the art of speech many decades ago when a college professor captivated her by the power of his voice technique; this began her journey toward learning how to use her speaking voice professionally. In addition to earning her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, Tami spent many evenings in Los Angeles area voice-over workshops during those early years of her career. After a couple of radio news stints, she landed her dream job and worked her way up the ladder to producer of an internationally syndicated radio talk show, while always staying connected to the voice-over industry. Tami left her job as a producer over three decades ago to raise her family but continued to hone her voice-over craft with steady work as a narrator and voice-over artist. Her joy of telling stories through a microphone has kept her happily busy ever since, and has earned her two nominations in the Voice Arts Awards. While still keeping busy in the worlds of audiobook narration and voice-over, Tami also hosts and produces two podcasts, Voicing Your Brand and Empty Nest Empires, and hopes the information she shares inspires others to tell their stories with confidence and clarity to be heard in the noisy space of digital marketing. In her free time, Tami is a fun grandma, enjoys everything about the outdoors, loves networking, is learning how to optimize her health, likes to write, and pretends to offer helpful advice to her adult kids.