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NEWS RELEASE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA EDUCATORS

 State's Largest Teacher Group
Publishes Guide for New Teachers

The 72,000-member Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE), the state’s largest teacher group, is making sure that Georgia’s thousands of new teachers get off to a successful start this school year.

PAGE has distributed, free of charge, more that 25,000 copies of their “New Teacher Guide” to educators in every school system across the state.  The colorful thirty-two page magazine provides insight into a number of key topics facing beginning teachers, including classroom management, parent-teacher conferences, the critical importance of reading instruction for their students and ways to seek out a positive mentor on their new faculty.

In addition to the “how-to” sections, there are sections on the role of the Professional Standards Commission, the Code of Ethics for Professional Educators, the state salary schedule and a primer on translating some of the “educationese” they will be hearing in the next few months.

Allene Magill, PAGE Executive Director, says that the publication gives her organization the annual opportunity to assist thousands of young educators in getting off to a good start.  “We want these energetic and enthusiastic young men and women to succeed and to retain their enthusiasm for their chosen profession.  We think our guide will make new teachers across the state feel welcomed by their colleagues.  The guide also answers many of the questions they may have in those first few hectic weeks.”

The publication was distributed across Georgia at new teacher orientation sessions held in all 180 school systems.  These orientations began earlier this summer and continued through the first weeks of August.  The PAGE guide has also been used by a number of schools systems during the school year for professional development sessions with teachers in the first year or two of their careers. PAGE also makes the guide available to education students at the state’s public and private institutions of higher learning.

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PAGE is a nonunion, statewide professional association of more than 72,000 teachers, administrators and support personnel members with the purpose of promoting better education for the children of Georgia.