1. Help I am a New Teacher!
By: Michelle Green Wright, RN, BS, Med (VDOE – Specialist) Jan Rayl, RN, BSN, CRNI (PN Instructor FCPS)

2. Let’s make the pieces fit! “Fail to plan, plan to fail!”

3. Top 10 Rookie Mistakes: Remember: Making everything from scratch
Skipping lunch
Thinking everyday is going to be perfect
Not having a change of clothes at school
Ignoring community connections
Assuming parents are the enemy
Giving up!
Never advertise your inexperience!!

4. Now they are here what next?
Some “Must Do’s”
Take Roll everyday, every class!
Meet and help the custodians, office
and support staff. You will need them!
Do school work at school!
Home is for family!
Grade papers daily –
I expect students to follow deadlines,
I need to respect their timeliness
I grade test and put online the same day

5. Now they are here what next?
Some “Must Do’s”
Read your IEPs (Individual Education Plans)
ASAP Week 1 the Goal and SDI parts
(Specially Designed Instruction)
Medical, Mental and Emotional Issues
504 Plans need to be read ASAP
when you get them
Know how to send them to the school nurse
You may be A NURSE
But you are not THE NURSE
Know the concussion test and teaching plan

6. Now they are here what next?
Some “Must Do’s”
Set the Rules and follow them –
“I am the Queen of this classroom and you
are my loyal subjects! Subject to a test at a
moments notice. Only I make the rules.”
“Always show respect, pay attention,
do your best, you could need what is being
taught to save the a life of someone
you love!”
Set your boundaries tight!
It is easier to loosen them later!

7. Miss Rayl Worked at Goshen Boy Scout Camp for 15 Summers as the nurse!
Choose a few fun facts to share and have them share 3 as well!
Get to Know you Day One

8. How will you be remembered?
Honor Code
The first “real” lecture I do is on the Honor System
How will you be remembered?

9. Top 10 Things for New Teachers to Know:
It is OK to tell students, “I don’t know!”
Effective classroom management starts
the first day!
Always have high (but not impossible)
expectations for your students and yourself
Be friendly, but not friends with your students
Practice consistency and fairness daily
~ Students will see through BS
~ Set the tone day one, this class is part of the Grown-up World. This could be your career.
~ Students will try to meet your expectations (Tell about Makenna)
~ Being friends gets teachers in to gray areas. Never be behind closed door alone with student, especially of opposite sex.
~ You can be flexible and make exceptions, but apply fairly. I move turn in dates if schools have IB Tests or other core projects exams and they ask me to move
~Greet all students at the door and make them feel welcome. The first few days I stand in the hall outside my door. I give direct them to pick up a handout and start to work day 1. Day 1 I do a pre-test with 2 questions for each of the six sections of my course
~ I will ask every student to come to my desk at least once each quarter to discuss where they are, the first 2 weeks to learn about them
~ Make friends with custodian! Keep your room neat.Have trash in the can! I bag party trash!
Be flexible but not a doormat
Smile at your students! Greet all who enter
Avoid confrontation in front of other students
Get to know custodians, colleagues, school staff
choose friends and battles wisely!

10. Top 10 Things to Plan and Organize

11. Things to Plan and Organize:
Classroom Preparation:
Decide how you want to run your room
Bathroom – pass, nod, sign language
Turning in Assignments – where, when
Returning Graded Assignments
Handling Cell phone
They will always remember how you made them feel!!! “R” Sign for restroom
How to decorate “Queen vs Mermaid”
Plan for consistency! It enhances
student performance
Plan lessons and stay a week ahead if possible

12. Some of my class organization:
Today’s Handouts on the yellow cart
Hang up for “no name work
Missed class folder for handouts
“In Bin” for each class with Color coded folders for each student to return work
What’s Due and Past Due (10 points off)
Emergency Procedures

13. Some of my class organization:
This weeks schedule
Month’s Schedule
Yearly school calendar
Encouragement

14. Some of my class organization:
Who sits where?
Teacher in front!!
To assign student seats or let them pick that is the question?

15. Some of my class organization:
This weeks schedule
Month’s Schedule
Yearly school calendar
Encouragement

16. Lectures, Assignments, Tests:
What Do I Teach:
Lectures, Assignments, Tests:
DO NOT reinvent everything!
Get to know your VERSO
Get to know what your Licensing Board requires
Ask others who teach the same subject
~ Free Books to Review
Get to know your Book Publisher
Representative and utilize their resources
Most text book companies have prepared
Power Points

17. Lectures, Assignments, Tests:
What Do I Teach:
Lectures, Assignments, Tests:
Your Text book company may have
test generators
Text book companies have image banks to
use in class

18. Lectures, Assignments, Tests:
What Do I Teach:
Lectures, Assignments, Tests:
You can have students trade papers and grade
each others, or grade their own
Remember, not everything has to be graded
Make the homework count,
don’t feel like you have to give it everyday.
I give in-class time for assignments
so I can help them
Make it interesting, throw in quick demos,
little labs, skits
Keep the end in mind – check the Review
Books for Certification

19. HOSA – Future Health Professionals (Health Occupations Students of America):
Plan for FUN!:
Come as a Disease Party
Valentines Party Heart month
Ice-cream Social
Cultural Party
Blood Mobile
Hurricane Irma Collection

20. FUN!!
Plan for FUN!:
~ Come as a Disease, Procedure or Health Care Professional Halloween (Salmonella, Measles, Rocky Mt Spotted Fever
In background is Lynda our Resource Specialist for our Students with IEPs
~Cultural Party last day before Winter Break – Students present Nursing in their country in poster, Students make food from the country they agree from (we usually have 50 ish countries in our school), the only person that can be from the US is me (girl with me is from Ethiopia where I was raised)
~Valentines Party with old fashioned Kindergarten exchange of Valentines as it is their last Valentines of their school life
~ End of school Ice cream Social by Jackie and I
~ Blood Mobile
~ Hurricaine Irma

21. Make a Lesson Plan: Follow the Plan, be flexible
I do mine by the Unit and by Anatomical Systems

22. Making it Interesting:
I can talk about dress code for lab and clinical or demonstrate in a fun way!
I assigned the cell in class. Put up a big poster and gave them clay to make it based off the photo in their textbook.
Communication – Director – me; Pt husband, nurse “Mr Bowers is mad that you did not heal his wife”
If I assign it I have done it, read it, tried it
Cardiac was a two week lesson we had them stitch the circulation of blood through the heard with yarn
We did a Cardiac lecture with Cornell Notes so they can follow along
Had them work in groups of four to look at the heart on the 3D Z-Space
I assigned three Chapters to read and do a packet on the Cardiac System
I dressed up like Cindy Lauper and told them they could dress up for “Cardiac Spirit Day” and we would play love songs while they worked. My shirt has all the vessels and structures of the heart labeled
I had a group of students dress up as The Spice Girls

23. Keys to Classroom Control
More Pieces …
Keys to Classroom Control
Be consistent!
Praise in Public – Correct in Private
If needed have another teacher in the area
Keep door open
Do not let a student get to you, you are older
and wiser! Take care of your-self!

24. How Do We Help Each Other…S H A R E I D E A S

25. Where do I get Ideas? … Teacher Helps Pinterest Google
YouTube (North Carolina CNA Skills)
Teacher to Teacher
Games for Learning
Quizlet -
Kahoot -
Students
Jeopardy – and other games
~ Pinterest: Pneumonics for Nursing
~ Google: How to teach the heart, Games to tech the heart
~ YouTube – videos for every subject
Help…
Grading Rubric -
CNA Practice Test -
Google Classroom – Blackboard
Teachers Pay Teachers-

26. Editable Puzzle Pieces
Organization
VERSO
YOUR
Attitude is
KEY!!
STUDENTS
PREPARE!
Have a
Back-up
Sub Plans

27. Resources and References:
Virginia CTE Resource Center (VERSO)
National Education Association
FREE Power Point Backgrounds
Jan’s Favorite e-Newsletter

28. Many Thanks to Jackie Portnoy my Mentor!
@slideh