With the end of August just days ahead, I am thinking about all those new teachers starting out the first day of school year and truthfully, it gives me the shivers. Only teachers can understand the mistakes of each new teacher. Every new teacher has to start out somewhere and find the style of teaching that speaks to him or her. Don’t beat yourself if you’ve still learning the ropes of classroom management.
1. New teachers sometimes fail to overlook discipline problems – Students can smell an organized lesson straight from the start. But they can also smell out a new teacher. It is usually the lack of a classroom management plan that makes a new teacher appear vulnerable. It just part of the students’ nature – they love to test the limits.
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Contrary to popular notions, teacher licensing in public schools does not insure teacher quality. A license also does not even insure that a public-school teacher knows much about the subject she teaches. In fact, in our upside-down public-school system, licensing often leads to ill-trained and mediocre teachers instructing our children. As we will see, it turns out that teacher licensing is a protection racket.
The notion that only state-approved, licensed teachers can guarantee children a good education is proven wrong by history and common sense. In ancient Athens, the birthplace of logic, science, philosophy, and Western civilization, city authorities did not require teachers to be licensed. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle did not have to get a teaching license from Athenian bureaucrats to open up their Academies. A teacher’s success came only from his competence, reputation, and popularity. Students and their parents paid a teacher only if they thought he was worth the money. Competition and an education free market produced great teachers in ancient Greece.
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Because new teachers experience overwhelming stress when they enter the profession, with paper work, classroom management and inexperience, it is essential that there is a means or a way for new teachers to transition from student to teacher. This is a way that can help new teachers become experienced teachers with less stress.
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