Get a flu shot.

Read: The Skillful Teacher by Rapier & Sapien; 1st Days of School by Harry Wong.

Learn your students names quickly.

Be firm, be fair, be consistent.

You are a role model; always dress professionally.

Humor always helps diffuse any situation.

The 1st year does end.

Lifelong learning! Update your skills -- professional development -- software, software, software.

Planning your lessons make it easier.

You are a professional?accountability is a part of work.

Promote CTSO?s?be a sponsor.

Get involved in your professional organization ACTE & affiliates NACEBE; NATEBE & NASBE; NBEA & Regions.

Be active in the community.

Be pro-active in your teaching.

Curriculum is a living, breathing thing & it changes all the time.

Respect your students; they will respect you.

Balance your time?there is life after 3:00.

Work smarter not harder.

Take advantages of ex-ternships: summer internships & job shadowing.

Utilize your advisory boards.

?What made you successful in the past may make you fail in the future.? Tom Peters

Use Internet for research.

Develop your teaching style?you cannot be anyone else.

Vote.

?Being a teacher is who I am, not what I do!?

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