When Am I Ever Going to Use This???
by Marianne Douglas
I’ve spent twenty-eight years in the classroom first as a
high school math teacher and then as the teacher of a course I created called
Strategies for Success.
As with any career, experience teaches many lessons.
Every year in the classroom, every new group of students who came before me
presented challenges and opportunities to grow.
One day I was thinking of what I
wish I had known before I started teaching so that I could pass that knowledge
and experience onto a friend who was just beginning her career. This
is the list I developed
with all the details and stories that hopefully will help others achieve the
kind of success I had in the classroom.
Most of these tips come from
experience in the classroom.
I was able to expand my results when I began
attending business seminars run by some of the most well known motivational
speakers in the world. I was able to put many of these non traditional
ideas into practice during the last three years I was in the classroom teaching
my
Strategies for Success curriculum.
My students always told me that they wished
all their teachers taught like me. I don’t claim to have all the answers for
how to be successful in the classroom but I think all teachers find strategies
that work for them. They just don’t get the opportunity to share their ideas
the work.
So here’s my list in no particular order.
Hope the tips can give you a
boost as you go through your daily journey in one of the toughest and most
important jobs we have in the 21st century.
And thank you for all the work you do to teach our
kids!
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