The Start of Something New...

I think that is the name of a song from High School Musical...

Anyways...

I got this really great book for Christmas ("The Organized Teacher's Guide to Your First Year of Teaching"), and it is all about how to have a successful first year of teaching. I have really decided that I want to do more than survive in my first year of teaching. I want to create memorable and engaging lessons. I really want to be nominated Teacher of the Year at the school that I work at next year. I know that all of the teachers nominate one teacher at their school for Teacher of the Year. Then all of those teachers go to the district, and one teacher is selected for the district. They also nominate for Beginning Teacher of the Year. I hope to at least be nominated to represent my school. It would be even better if I won! But I am not going to count my chickens before they hatch. (But, hey, a girl can dream, can't she?)

So... I am going to read through this book (and I have several others), and I will take notes on them as I go! Hopefully, this will help me to organize my thoughts.

Let's get started!