Teaching Is Not Just A Job

Many people say teaching is an easy job, but I beg to differ. Teachers are the foundation of our younger generation’s success.  As a teacher, you have to be proficient of teaching different learning styles, students with special needs, children with a variety of backgrounds, providing support and love to your children, and push your students to be the best they can be. My mentor, a second teacher in Tomball Independent School District, has been facilitating my journey to become a great teacher. Her example has shown me the joys of teaching even more.  Teachers should be passionate about what they do and should be serious about the education of children. Our students need to us to help guide them, protect them, most importantly, teach them, and believe in them. My mentor said “the first year of teaching will be life experiencing, exciting, brand new, stressful, and a lot of learning the ins and outs of teaching and the school system.” There are five common mistakes teachers make in their first year which are, inconsistency, focusing on lesson planning rather than student learning, grading everything, avoiding parent contact, not setting boundaries with students, being afraid to ask for help, being afraid to speak up, and forgetting about the joys of teaching.

This website will give more useful information: http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2015/08/04/9-mistakes-new-teachers-make.html