CREATING THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM, 5 Must-Haves for Teachers, 4th Edition: BOOK 5: Lifelong Learning – Your Career in Education

BOOK 5:Lifelong Learning – Your Career in Educationis the 5th in the SERIES of CREATING THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM, 5 Must-Haves for Teachers, 4th Edition – in which dynamic teaching is effective, engaging, and motivating teaching and learning, whether in the face-to-face or virtual environment. You can access the Accompanying Downloadable FREE Resources (Line Masters, PowerPoints, sample assignments) by going on the authors’ website to BOOK 5 with a password found on page 39 before the Acknowledgments page. BOOK 5: Lifelong Learning – Your Career in Education Mainly targeting teachers and teacher leaders, this book includes 5 chapters: 1. Preparing Your Application Package 2. Mastering the Interview Process 3. Landing That Position 4. Planning for Occasional Teaching Opportunities 5. Growing Professionally – A Continuum of Learning This book offers valuable insights into securing that first teaching or leadership position, providing beneficial strategies for the employment process, including how to use career portfolios and e-portfolios/websites. It presents tips and strategies for having a dynamic interview–“on the hot seat.” It shares the secret (a framework) to giving a “full” answer while on the “hot seat” and although targeting teachers and teacher leaders, this section is applicable to anyone in a different profession applying for a position. It includes ideas for what to do when landing a teaching position. It explores specific strategies for the role of the occasional teacher. It also looks at a teaching career as a continuous, ongoing professional growth process. This 4th edition of CREATING THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM is organized into 5 BOOKS (similar to the 5 PARTS in the 3rd Edition of CREATING THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM, 2018). More information can be found on the authors’ website and blog at Creatingthedynamicclassroom.com. The books in this SERIES include: BOOK 1: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Atmosphere BOOK 2: Planning an Engaging, Dynamic, and Inclusive Curriculum BOOK 3: Creating Effective Assessing, Evaluating, and Reporting Practices BOOK 4: Creating a Student-Centred Literacy Classroom BOOK 5: Lifelong Learning – Your Career in Education This SERIES is a comprehensive, practical, and important support for pre-service, in-service, and graduate teacher education courses as well as for new and experienced teachers and leaders, consultants, mentors, and school administrators. Parents will also find this book useful in providing them with a clearer understanding of today’s classrooms and how they can help their children at home.