Many new high-school teachers remark that resources abound for new elementary teachers, but most resources do not apply to teaching teenagers in high school. Too many times, high-school teachers become proficient only through on-the-job training. In my thirty years of teaching high school, I found myself giving the same advice many times as I mentored interns and new teachers, so when I retired, I put all that advice into a book geared specifically to new high-school teachers. High Advice to New High-School Teachers contains specific advice, checklists, and ways to think through issues that face all teachers of teenagers.
Dory Smith started teaching in 1989, retired in 2020, and taught high-school students ranging from freshmen to seniors, and ranging from mentally handicapped to Advanced Placement. She was also a member of the Army Reserve Military Police Corps and was deployed to Desert Storm and Bosnia during her teaching career. She currently lives in central Florida with her husband and German Shepherds.