My First Year As A Teacher

Mr. Rose presents many descriptive vignettes of teaching professionals in his life who have influenced him both positively and negatively and whom he has retained for emulation or distinction. These characters in his life include teachers from grammar school throughout his college experience. All have in one way or another left a considerable imprint on his recollection of school and learning.

His book ‘What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World’, is a phenomenal and a thrilling world which highlights the teacher-student relationship.

One fall, I sat in a crowded auditorium about to begin another year teaching when the words of the school head, Tom Hudnut, rang deep. His charge to the faculty was simple. “Be great teachers!” Be like the loon 's voice on a summer night. Be that great teacher whose memory and instruction reach into the heart and soul of those you teach. Born and raised in the private school world, I learned from many great teachers. However, none figure so prominently as my middle school teachers: Jim Gardner, Arnold Klingenberg, Jim

Testimonials of some of the 24 teachers that participated in previous workshops. These testimonials can show novice teachers how to approach and interact with students

The risk of losing beginning teachers has been an issue in the United States for a long time. An immense amount of research has been conducted exploring why beginning teachers are leaving the profession. Fantilli and McDougall’s (2009) pointed out that beginning teachers have the same responsibilities and requirements as veteran teachers, but in addition to these factors, feel the additional pressure that most people feel starting a new vocation. As a result, beginning teachers spend “a disproportionate amount of time and effort simply to keep their heads above water” (p. 814). In the article Hello, Goodbye: Exploring the Phenomenon of Leaving Teaching Early, a qualitative study was conducted to explore why beginning teachers are leaving the profession. Through an interview process, former beginning teachers identified negative factors that influenced their decision to leave the profession. These factors included working with unmotivated colleagues, feeling isolated, feeling that they did not receive support or recognition from administration, dealing with administrative problems, and not having flexibility and freedom to decide how they teach in their classrooms.

I was in the bathroom getting ready for the first day of the third trimester of 8th grade, I was comfortably singing in my bathroom thinking I was alone. After getting ready I opened up the door and look in the hallway flustered to see my mom filming me singing. I was embarrassed and my cheeks turned bright red as I ran towards the front door to jump into my shoes and catch the bus. I went to school and it was a regular day, I had new classes and one of them was with my favorite teacher, Mrs. Gates. I never thought I would build up the confidence to sing infront of people ever but Mrs. Gates but i started to rethink that when my teacher told the class that at the end of this week on friday we will have auditions for a solo of the choir. I felt this uneasiness in my stomach and thought I was about to embarrass myself by throwing up in front of the whole class. I went the whole day just thinking about that solo.

My first observation experience was eye-opening. Upon my arrival to Providence Catholic High School, I only had basic knowledge about what it took to be an effective teacher. After working with many different teachers at this high school, it became evident that every teacher adopted their own style of teaching. I also began to understand that in order to be a wonderful

By using these three basic keys, you will have a more realistic outlook to your first year teaching. I believe some young teachers do go into this field trying to be every child’s savior, put every Pinterest idea into their classes and still have tons of free time only to be disappointed and severely wore out! Try out a few new things at a time. Your teaching style should be a little more flexible at first until you find what really works for you and your students. And being organized is extremely important for day to day functionality. Work different systems of turning in homework, passing out papers, asking to use the restroom. You can even ask your students for different ideas. As you go throughout the year, you can talk with other staff and veteran teachers to see how they do certain things in their classrooms as well.

The first key, be reasonable, is a reminder that I will not be perfect as a teacher, especially my first year, and I must set goals that are easily attainable and work for me. I should not expect positive feedback or even results from every lesson or activity. It will take time to learn what ways work for me, and this will keep me from getting discouraged as a first year teacher. The second key, organize your life, means I must understand the amount of planning it will require in order to do my job as a first year teacher. This will take much time and commitment and I need to understand this and expect this as the year begins. The final key, reflect, is equally important. I must make time to reflect on my lessons and find what works and

She has envisioned herself as a planter sowing seeds into her students. Some would reject her lessons. Some would embrace them and teach them to their children. Her ideology is that generation after generation people have left their children a world that is a mess and it will take a very special type of people to clean it up and prevent the mistakes of the past. The end game to her has always been to develop her students‘ moral compasses and help them discover what they believe and why they believe. To build conviction of their beliefs so they have a personal code so that they can navigate whatever space in the world that they occupy and choose to change what they didn’t like in the world. No matter what grade or subject she has taught, she has always focused on character development for her students.

At the beginning of my third year of medical school, I kept an open mind when it came to evaluating which specialty would be an appropriate fit to further my career in medicine. Anesthesiology provides the combination of intellectual challenges and hands-on approach that will allow me to use my abilities to help better patient care. With the ability to experience and interact in a variety of cases and patient populations will force oneself to be remain knowledgeable and current in a wide spectrum of medicine disciplines. I believe with the diversity available in anesthesia, I have an opportunity to work in field that will test my medical knowledge and creative skills to individualize patient care.

Well, here it is,the day I've been dreading since Mrs. Mercer first brought it up. This day honestly came way too fast! When I first got my schedule and seen current health issues, I was like what in the world? So the first day of school came about and it was time for seventh period. When I realized it was Mrs. Mercer's class, I got extremely happy. I wasn't sure what to expect the first few days. As the days went on, all 13 of us started to get the hang of everything and bonded instantly. This is definitely a class that I'll always remember and I will truly miss! We've all had happy times,sad times,angry times,and a lot of fun times. I've honestly took in a lot from RY, especially snap and zap. Snap and Zap is where you snap out of bad thoughts and zap in good thoughts. I found if you do that then you wouldn't have as much anxiety build up. I feel like the RY class has helped a lot with my anxiety and anger. Mrs.Mercer and the 12 others in RY have been there for me since the first day. I want to thank all you guys. When class first started, I wasn't sure if I wanted to open up because at that time I only talked to like two people. I wasn't sure if I could trust everyone. Well about the second week I felt like I had a family A family that I can talk to, cry too, get advice from, never be judged by, a family that I can just simply enjoy. One that Id die to have at home. I knew if I couldn't trust anyone else, I had 13 other people that I knew for a fact that I could run to

On a stormy Monday morning, a girl wakes up and barely drags herself out of bed and forces her small feet across the hallway and into the bathroom. The girl steps on top of her step stool and stares back at the mirror. With tired eyes she stares at the dark skin, dark eyes, and dark cornrows covered with her favorite colorful hair beads, looking back at her. She smiles at her rainbow colored hair and shakes her head with a giggle as she hears the beads shake around, going about her morning routine as usual. She brushes her teeth with her Disney princess toothbrush, showers, gets dressed and gets ready for another day.

Going into my first term of college I didn’t quite know what to expect, little did I know that it was going to be an eventful term. Heading into College Survival I didn’t know what exactly to expect and what exactly the course would cover. Here I am today finishing up my first term of college and I must say this class has definitely helped me out a lot, in ways which I didn’t think it could. The term “College Survival” fascinated me and made me want to learn more about it, so I ended up taking the course. This course has helped me in so many ways I don’t know where I can start by listing everything it’s helped me with.

The night before my first day as a teacher I was scared. It was something totally different for me; it was something I had never done before. Yes, I have made some microteachings at the university, but that was not the same as been in an actual classroom with kids observing you and waiting for you to teach them something. In my head, there were questions such as What am I going to do? What should I tell to the kids? Is this how it is supposed to be done?