Toolbox
Most pre-service teachers have probably heard from professors and experienced teachers that the first year of teaching is the most difficult and, for survival’s sake, teachers, especially new ones, need to look for resources to support them in planning lessons, creating assessments, and working through the other challenges associated with teaching. This section seeks to provide some of those resources in the form of a sample unit plan, sample lesson plans, and ideas for teaching with technology, but, of course, it is by no means a comprehensive resource. Hopefully this can serve as a starting point that inspires the reader to look for further resources in the form of other teachers, books, the internet, and life.