Support for All New Teachers
This year has made me notice the desperate times we have in the eduction world. I am experiencing first hand how important it is that we figure out a way to support new teachers. The education world already has a bad rap. We don’t get paid enough. It’s a demanding job that just seems to be piling more on teachers. We deal with challenging kids. And yet people are still going to school to become teachers. So why is it that when these teachers finally make it to their first classroom we throw them in there like we are feeding them to a pack of wild dogs?? If we had some sort of support system in place for EVERY new teacher (not just the ones who show they need it), I bet the retention rate of new teachers would soar. This support system can’t be after school sessions that they can attend, because let’s be honest we are all exhausted at the end of the day. It can’t be extra professional development that takes them out of the classroom because the classroom is where the...