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Look at you! You’re here! In just a few short days (or maybe weeks), you will be on your own. Running a classroom. Holding between 20 and 120 brains in your hands.Maybe this is a life-long dream for you. Ever since you were a little, you were forcing siblings and/or stuffed animals to sit in little rows and take notes as you repeatedly pointed at a Fisher Price globe and made up facts.
Or maybe teaching is a new direction for you. You’ve been an accountant for fifteen years and have decided to pursue what you’ve always wanted to do, or maybe a door closed on what you’ve always wanted to do and teaching is your Plan B. It doesn’t matter how you got here. What matters is that you are here.
Source: A Letter to First-Year Teachers