Thread: Book Suggestions? -First Year Teacher Time Management skills

Hi,

I have a good friend that is a first year elementary school teacher. She is finding that despite all her schooling, student-teaching, training etc., her hardest thing is lesson planning and feeling like she is efficiently and effectively lesson planning (mostly she feels like she spends a lot of hours on it and doesn't get very much accomplished), and I encouraged her to, but she is somewhat afraid to ask for ideas from teachers (she is a perfectionist and worries that they will think she's not qualified for the job). This seems to tie into other concerns she has about being efficient in time management in general, so I was thinking I might get her a book for Christmas about time management for teachers, and wondering if anyone has any suggestions for books that would be a practical help, maybe as well as a little encouragement . . . and about some books I found on amazon, if any of you have personal experiences that you found they did or didn't help.

On Amazon I found these books that look promising:
[url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/013014374X/qid=1102460382/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-4133089-8499054?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"]Teacher's Time Management Survival Kit: Ready-To-Use Techniques and Materials by P. Susan Mamchak, Steven R. Mamchak[/url]
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761978739/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/103-4133089-8499054?v=glance">The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook: Flourishing in Your First Year
by Kathleen Feeney Jonson </a>
but I really don't know and didn't seem them (so I could skim through) at the local bookstore. . .


Thanks for all your help!