This user-friendly calendar and reflective journal will help special education teachers stay the course in their chosen field, providing both organization and affirmation along the way. Seasoned authors Mary McGrath and Beverley Johns have chosen monthly themes and daily tips specific to the concerns of special educators, from how to keep up with IEP deadlines to how to become stronger student advocates. There is ample space for users to record their own thoughts as they plan ahead, and to reflect on events as they unfold.Topics covered in this calendar include: * Working effectively with parents+ Building team rapport with staff+ Writing and applying IEPs+ Managing stress+ Maintaining your ideals and energy

You're already a good teacher, and your students are learning and growing. But what about you? Are you achieving your full potential as an educator? Teachers Today, full of real-life experiences and first-hand knowledge, gives you the resources you need to grow and thrive in your classroom and in your career. McGrath combines hard-earned personal experience with the research of other experts to create this timely guidebook. Designed for helping, not preaching, this book shows you methods for creating caring schools and supportive faculty activities to let education professionals assist each other as well as themselves. Teachers, administrators, staff-management professionals, and education faculty will all learn valuable tools for stress management and creative coping. You'll find expert advice on such matters as: how you can live with creatively with stress, not just ignore it; how to take charge of your own self-care; what to do to stimulate your personal growth; how to build bridges and create cooperation in your work life; and how to gather emotional and intellectual support from co-workers. Continue being an effective educator--be sure to take care of yourself first! This book will help you do just that, and your students and you will share in the rewards.

This 53-week planning calendar offers teachers the gift of reflection every day. With daily and monthly professional tips and year-round motivators from veteran educators Mary Z. McGrath and Bev Johns, every teacher will find this calendar-journal an invaluable addition to briefcase, backpack, or bookbag. With room to record lesson planning reminders, goals, reflections, memos to self, and others, teachers will find this calendar to be an ideal planning tool or an ideal gift for friends, colleagues, or mentees.