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Oh, If Only I’d Known!! (Week 4)
It’s time for Week 4 of my blog series, Oh, If Only I’d Known, which is geared towards first-year teachers. I’m going to try and keep it a little shorter this time around since Monday’s blog post was so long! So let’s go! This week, I am going to encourage you new teachers to step outside your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid to try something new! That’s this week’s piece of advice. As a first year teacher, there may be days where you are struggling to keep your head above water and it’s all you can do to use those lesson plans your mentor teacher gave you or the worksheets you…
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Reading Teacher Books Should Count as Professional Development!
Over the summer, I have tried to do summer break things. I have hung out at the animal shelter (probably way too much), spent time with family, watched way too many episodes of Bones and Say Yes to the Dress, and taken a lot of naps. Ahhh…summer.But I have also gotten bored. And itchy to get started with school prep because I always try to do something new, bigger, and better each year. So not only did I work on new lesson materials and my new classroom theme (which I will reveal in a new blog series starting next week so stay tuned!!) but I read several new teaching books.And that’s…
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Oh, If Only I’d Known!! (Week 3)
Okay, okay, I know. I’ve been terrible about blogging this summer. I’ve had a lot going on and I’ll be honest with you – sometimes I don’t blog as regularly as I should because I’m pretty sure no one reads my blog anyway! If you do read, please let me know in the comments! 🙂 All right, let’s dive right into this post today.Today’s advice for new teachers centers on something that I am still trying to work through as a now-sixth year teacher. And that piece of advice is: don’t dwell on what you can’t control. Not everyone is always going to agree with you or see things your way…
