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While I was in school working toward earning my teaching credential, I took a class called \u201cPhilosophy of Education.\u201d\u00a0 During this course, we read an article originally published in 1990 by the California Department of Education.1<\/sup>\u00a0 The article included a graph entitled \u201cPhases of first-year attitudes toward teaching.\u201d\u00a0 (See below)<\/p>\n

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The article described each phase a new teacher typically encounters at various points during the school year.\u00a0 She starts off on an emotional high, anticipating a great year of teaching her rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed, motivated students.\u00a0 By mid-September, however, her attitude toward teaching begins to take a nosedive, as she enters the survival stage.\u00a0 She realizes that she and her students aren\u2019t quite living up to the unrealistic expectations she had at the beginning of the school year.\u00a0 She is simply doing her best to survive the challenges her students present and make sure she has lesson plans done at least one day ahead of time.\u00a0 She begins to wonder why everything is taking so long and she has to stay up until 2 AM just to be prepared for the next day.
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Sometime around December, she hits rock-bottom and is completely disillusioned.\u00a0 This teaching thing is just not all it was cracked up to be.\u00a0 She can\u2019t seem to motivate her students.\u00a0 Johnny peed his pants again.\u00a0 Jessica will not<\/i> stop talking no matter where her desk is placed.\u00a0 She spends hours planning excellent, engaging lessons and 5 students still fail the assessment.\u00a0 Maybe she\u2019s just not cut out for this?\u00a0 Will she even be able to keep going until June?<\/i><\/p>\n

After Winter Break, though, she begins to see a light at the end of the tunnel.\u00a0 Her emotions head on an upward trail as she begins to feel rejuvenated.\u00a0 She will <\/i>make it until June.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 Julio actually did his homework last night.\u00a0 And he finished it.\u00a0 All of it.<\/p>\n

Though she still encounters up and downs, her attitude towards teaching becomes increasingly positive through May, when she begins to reflect on her year so far.\u00a0 She sees that the school year is approaching its end and she thinks about how far she and her students have come since the beginning of the school year.\u00a0 She also thinks about what has worked and what hasn\u2019t and makes plans about how she can improve her teaching for the next school year.<\/p>\n

The Teacher Attitude Chart almost exactly parallels my feelings my first year of teaching.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 It also resembles my feelings during my subsequent years of teaching.\u00a0 Teaching has become more rewarding, I am much more confident now than I was my first year, and the emotional highs and lows are much less pronounced, but there are still ups and downs.\u00a0 I still start the year with anticipation, dredge through the fall months when perseverance is key, feel rejuvenated after Winter Break, and reflect on how to improve during the spring and summer.<\/p>\n

If the average person understood what a teacher experiences each year of teaching, especially in her novice years, teachers would be far more appreciated.\u00a0 They might even be held in the same high regard as those in other more lauded professions.<\/p>\n

As you reflect on your last year, I\u2019m sure you will find that there were many ups and downs.\u00a0 Maybe you had a particularly hard year.\u00a0 Or maybe you had one of those rare years where you were lucky enough to get a \u201cdream class.\u201d Either way, you deserve some praise.\u00a0 You worked hard and you\u2019ve touched the lives, to one degree or another, of some young souls.\u00a0 You\u2019re awesome!<\/p>\n

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Click Here<\/a><\/strong> for our free gift to you: a Certified Awesome Teacher certificate.\u00a0 Hang it up.\u00a0 And remember, whether this was your first year of teaching or you\u2019re about to retire, you really are a Certified Awesome Teacher.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>Moir, Ellen.\u00a0 <\/em>\u201cPhases of First Year Teaching,\u201d California New Teacher Project, California Department of Education, 1990.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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