New Teachers, Don’t Accept The Default: Suggestions to Ensure Success in Your First Year | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

I’ve compiled a list of statements offering new teachers advice as they enter their first year of teaching. It is my intention that these suggestions will dispel many of the myths pre-service teachers encounter as they complete their training programs.

 

Don’t accept the DEFAULT, seek out an option that will be BETTER for students:

  • Make it your mission to fight “We’ve always done it this way” thinking.
  • Be a disruptor and shake things up. Create an epic classroom!
  • Start slowly with little tweaks like replacing rows of desks with clusters of four in all classrooms, especially those in middle school and high school.
  • Create the change you wish to see in your school.

 

Be so GOOD they can’t ignore you: