The Floating Teacher: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving [Perfect Paperback]

Elizabeth Randall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 2011

This complete guide for floating teachers of all grades helps you tackle the common challenges of being a floating teacher from organizing equipment and supplies to pre-planning lessons.

Reproducible checklists, forms, templates, and initial lesson plans help you stay positive, keep organized, and make the most of your floating experience and time. Choose to read the easy-to-use guide from cover to cover, or reference only the information you need right now.You ll start the year off on the right foot by learning how to manage paperwork and troubleshoot no matter what your hectic schedule brings.

Author and veteran floating teacher Elizabeth Randall also offers proven tips that help administrators support and find funding for floating teachers.

The Floating Teacher helps you float like the pro you are!

Editorial Reviews

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Liz Randall has skillfully created the first comprehensive guide for floaters. This book is packed with invaluable tips, ideas, and advice. In today s school climate, this is a MUST READ for all educators...not just floaters! --Jodi McKay, MAT, inventor of the Teacher Trolley Mobile Workstation and nomadic teacher advocate

This practical book is an honest and concise approach to dealing with the issue of floating. Having solid recommendations for the floating teacher, the administration, and for the teacher whose room is being utilized will create a professional atmosphere. This book would have helped me avoid some of the problems I encountered during my first few weeks as a floating teacher. I recommend it for all administrators and teachers who have floating teachers on their campuses. --Walt Griffin, Executive Director of Secondary Schools for Seminole County Public Schools

About the Author

Elizabeth Randall is a nationally published writer who has written for Education Week, Salon, and Public School Montessorian. She is a certified teacher of 35 years and presently floats in Seminole County, Florida as a teacher of eleventh-grade English and writing.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Maupin House Publishing (March 31, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193433894X
• ISBN-13: 978-1934338940
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,460,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am a high school English teacher and a former "floating" teacher. For two years I taught American Literature, British Literature, Writing and Poetry without a permanent classroom of my own.

The new merit pay and peer counseling programs do not cut any slack for "floaters." I wrote a book about the "floating" experience, which contains everything a floating teacher needs to know to have a successful school year and not lose any educational ground with her students.

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5.0 out of 5 stars So you don't teach in the public school system!, April 14, 2011

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This review is from: The Floating Teacher: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving (Perfect Paperback)

Virtually all people in positions of authority are going to be called upon to teach at one time or another. And this does not necessarily limit itself to the workplace. You might want to consider invitations you may get from civic organizations to speak to your field of expertise. And when you do - you want to be organized - you don't to be tripped up because you forgot to ask if i.e. the host if you need to bring the equipment necessary for a power-point presentation. Author Randall's Floating Teacher wont turn you into "speaker of the year," but it will see that you get to the podium with everything in place thus easing your mind and allowing you to put the best foot foreward. If, in your entire life, you have never been before an audience, following this neat little book will get you there in sterling fashon. It is an easy read and makes a fine reference for the personal library.