Empowering New Teachers: Advice from Veterans
Every educator remembers what it’s like to be a first-year teacher: it’s exciting, terrifying, stressful, and wonderful all at once. But every first-year teacher, no matter how well prepared they may be, needs guidance from experienced veterans.
Our Art of Teaching Project is made up of passionate, capable educators. We asked them to provide new teachers with their best advice, and this is what they said…
“If your school did not assign you a mentor, find one! Reach out to a valued veteran teacher and grab some coffee with them. Meeting and talking to your mentor will give you a good preview of the upcoming school year. Ask questions besides the obvious ones. Ask about their favorite memories, best lessons to plan, most time-consuming lessons, how they manage time, all that good stuff. ” — Sammie Gari, 5th Grade Teacher
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