This guide is designed to assist teachers who are beginning their first year of teaching Texas' Health Science Technology Education program. Discussed in the guide's seven sections are the following: the state's educational system, the teacher-student relationship, and teachers' internal struggles; planning/scheduling; classroom management (student information sheets; first-day icebreakers; classroom rules; general information regarding notebooks, bulletin boards, current events, and checking out books; driving release forms; gradebooks and sample grading plans; bulletin board plans and grade sheets; answer sheets; and seating charts); clinical rotation (guidelines, skill competencies, student agreements, clinical reports, and current event assignment sheets and abstracts); cooperative education (grading policy, employer evaluations, wage and hour reports, weekly reports, employer permission slips, sample grading plans, journal entries, training plans, and student visitation records); Health Occupations Students of America (general information, sign-in sheets, sample installations, car wash sponsor sheets, and competitive events); and recruiting (interviews, blood pressure screening forms, posters, and brochures). Each section includes numerous sample records/forms. (MN)