Wisdom For New Teachers

I've been teaching for almost 20 years now. I got to watch my own children grow up in their classrooms just across the hall from me, and my husband and I still teach there together. In fact, he takes my students for music and computers each week. So as you can imagine, with us both knowing my entire class very well, we talk about them a LOT. Sometimes we have to make a concerted effort to talk about something else!



Through the years our discussions have become more and more about two things. 

First, we spend much more time talking about how to help my students with emotional or social issues. Even this year, with 14 students starting the year in reading intervention, it was a focus on their emotional well-being and self-regulation skills that brought them all up to reading at grade level by June. 

Second, we laugh SO much while sharing funny stories of what our students have done or said. More and more we focus on that, and not on the difficulties of being trapped in a small room with 23 children! 

Although there are trying moments, I still believe that you really shouldn't take a job working with 6 year olds, and then be upset with them for acting like 6 year olds!

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