CHAPTER 14

What Can the New Teacher Expect?

Multiple Choice
7.

Which of the following are typical ways a supervisor can help a beginning teacher?
a.

Help the new teacher change practice based on the principal's written observation; review the new
teacher's lessons

b.

Conduct a mini-lesson to demonstrate a new teaching strategy; provide suggestions for follow-up
activities for a unit

c.

Coach him or her on how to conduct parent conferences; point out ways to minimize class distractions

d.

All of the above

ANS: __
10.

It is your first year of teaching. A few days before classes start, a very friendly teacher stops by to welcome
you to the school. By the end of the second week of school, she stops by your room regularly, frequently
giving you information about other faculty and the administration. What would be the best approach for
dealing with this teacher?
a.

Try to avoid her in the future. You don't want to get involved with any teacher who is too friendly this
early in the year.

b.

Encourage her friendship. She's friendly and has taken an interest in you.

c.

Be polite but reserve your friendship until you know her and the school system better.

d.

Find out more by asking other teachers for their opinion of her.

ANS: __
13.

Many beginning teachers are concerned that they will lack subject-matter knowledge. In reality, though,
most beginning teachers have the most difficulty with which of the following?
a.

Learning how to work in a bureaucracy

b.

Designing adequate lesson plans

c.

Maintaining classroom discipline

d.

Evaluating student work

ANS: __

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