Novice teachers often find themselves with the most difficult tasks. In Miss Hiller's case, she was becoming very discouraged because she didn't seem to know how to motivate her students to learn. She is also annoyed that the students don't seem to like her and that she has trouble disciplining her students. Stansbury and Zimmerman (2000) suggest that to make life less stressful for new teachers like Miss Hiller, the principal can reduce the number of students in a beginning teacher's classes, refrain from assigning the most challenging students, and minimize their extracurricular and committee assignments. .Selection and training of effective support providers. Support providers are experienced teachers who recognize the importance of helping beginners identify and understand their teaching strengths. The minimum requirement for support providers should be teachers who are successful in their classrooms and who express their practice. However, because working with novice teachers is different from working with students, a good support provider should be temperamentally suited to working collegially with other teachers.