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Step into Your Career more confidently and professionally with KDP’s Novice Notes, topical guidelines and quick tips that help you prepare for your first teaching position.

For Undergrads—
Read the current issue of Novice Notes

For Professors and KDP Counselors—
Use Novice Notes in class and career seminars—they are perfect samples and takeaways.

Career Center Counselors—
Purchase Novice Notes for the Teaching Resources section of your career center.

Purchase Novice Notes in packets of 25 from the KDP Store.
Get the Stepping Into Your Career series in the KDP-exclusive Novice Notes. This free, quarterly, members-only bulletin  for undergraduates is delivered to your desktop through Solutions, KDP’s resource e-newsletter. Novice Notes gives you tips and guidelines to start you off on the right foot in your teaching career.

Get résumé and cover letter how-to’s from HR professionals and insider tips that will help you make a good impression with job fair recruiters and principals. Other Novice Notes topics include Professionalism, Student Teaching, and Substitute Teaching.

Look for Novice Notes in the October, December, February, and April issues of Solutions and download the free PDFs when they become available.  


Novice Notes Topics

Polishing the Apple:
Six Steps to a Shining Job Fair Performance

A Letter Is Worth 1,000 Pictures:
Etiquette for Professional Correspondence

Practicing Professionalism

Your Career Begins

ELL: Myths and Facts

Your Application Matters

Portfolios for Teachers

Substitute Teaching

Student Teaching:
Your Preparation And Etiquette Checklist

Build Your Résumé and Best Fit Interview