Early Career Educators

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“Kids Before Content. Love Before All.”

Early career educators Richard Warren Jr., John Wombach, Sarah Gizaw, and Arame Richardson with 2014 National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb. “The day after the conference,” said music educator John Wambach, “I started drafting a behavior reflection document — using specific language from one of the workshops — that my students now complete when they are disrupting another’s education.” […]
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New Teacher Support in Maryland: Rhetoric vs. Reality

  Photo: Stephen Cherry On paper, Maryland’s mentoring and induction support system for new educators sounds pretty good — new teachers should be given a mentor, time to observe veteran teachers, a reduction in workload, and targeted professional development. Sound familiar? For many teachers in Maryland, it doesn’t. That’s because the recommendations laid out in Maryland regulations, known […]
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Teaching as a Second (or Third) Career

Becoming a new teacher isn’t just for twenty-somethings. It’s for people who have had rewarding careers in other industries and for those who want a full-time job that supports their communities and the next generation. But no matter how many years of job experience are on a resume, the transition to teaching can still be […]
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They Say You’ll Be Gone after Three Years. Don’t Go Yet.

Not only do new teachers deserve more and better support so they can succeed and thrive in the classroom, but students benefit from teacher stability, experience, and quality — which often go hand-in-hand. It’s costly situation. Richard Ingersoll, a University of Pennsylvania professor and leading researcher on teacher turnover, estimates that this rate of turnover costs school […]
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Building Warm and Cozy Relationships with Parents

In a Reddit thread dubbed “When Parents Blame You,” one teacher-user commented, “I don’t blame the parents. They are usually super stressed out. [I’ve] had parents go from irate to crying in 20 minutes. As soon as I can identify the underlying fear and address that directly, we can get on the same page and […]
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Gen-Nexters in the Classroom

In Finland, a primary teacher must study at a university for five or six years in a program that includes not only pedagogy, but units on neuroscience, curriculum theories, and research methods. They must then take a clinical practical training at the university’s teacher training school. In Singapore, every new teacher is assigned a master […]
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You Mean I Don’t Have to Be Perfect?

Perfect? Not me. Jacob Bauer Zebley, Cecil County  Government Teacher, Elkton High In my first five years of teaching I wish I knew that I didn’t have to be perfect. I thought that every lesson needed to be flawless and that I had to know the answer to every question. If a lesson didn’t go well, I felt […]
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Things Not to Say to a New Educator

You didn’t need that period of planning time, right? Planning time is important. Really important. It must be nice to finish work at 3 and have summers off! This one never gets old (or accurate). Just skip lunch! You’ll be fine. Days get busy, and it happens to all of us. But try to eat so you don’t […]
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8 Things to Know about Your Contract

As a new educator, if there’s one thing you know about your union, it’s probably that it negotiates and defends your contract. So what’s in your contract anyway? Turns out, some very important stuff. 1. How much planning time you get. Planning time is essential for collaborating with colleagues, prepping for your next class, and developing […]
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