Top Notch Teaching

Well you may be thinking I’m over exaggerating or embellishing when I say I cried for 3 months, but I’ve gotta tell you…this is pretty damn accurate. No one actually ever told me how hard, difficult and demoralising being a teacher could be.  I’ll be honest I started my teaching degree when I was a [...]

I think one of the most difficult parts of being a teacher is the classroom behaviour management.  I remember at University we were required to write a statement outlining our philosophy of classroom behaviour management.  Mine is below: “As a teacher it is my responsibility to maintain harmony and the process of learning in the [...]

Continued from Tales From A First Year Teacher: Will I Ever Get A Job? What the…..are you for real…..this can’t be right can it…..is this where I’m meant to spend the whole year…..I can feel my whole world crashing down around me…..This wasn’t part of the picture I had painted in my head….. This isn’t [...]