1. Be strict, clear, consistent, and caring from day 1.
2. Keep everyone busy. If it is hard to keep everyone engaged and busy, at least keep busy the students that will give you the most trouble.
3. Have a buddy teacher. They will be invaluable on days when students are for sure pressing your buttons, and you feel you just need to step out for a minute.
4. Randomize your students that you call on. Doing this helps keep them engaged and not knowing who you are going to call on. A good tip is to tape a playing card to each desk and have a deck to yourself. When you need to call on students draw a card and that is the person that will answer the question. They can then decide to pass to another student, but make sure to go back to them.
5. This will be the most stressful year of your life, but remember it is only ten months and it gets better after that, at least that is what I have heard.
6. Do not assume that your students will be quiet when you ask them to. They are kids. They want to talk and play. Also most kids do not listen and do their work because you told them to or because they know that it is best for them. You have to have external motivation somewhere.
7. Your day usually will not stop when school gets out. You will have to bring your work home with you sometimes.
8. Do not take what the kids do and say personally. They are just kids.
9. Have a been for all assignments, for both turning in and going out. This way students have a place to turn in assignments, and there is a place for absent students to pick up their makeup work.
10. Remember why you got into teaching in the first place. It will help you get through the rough days.
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