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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher with 25 years of experience here.

I won’t discourage you, but go in prepared. The days are exhausting. You’ll come home mentally and physically drained, and you’ll still have 2-3 hours of work to do in order to be prepared for the next day.

Many of us will tell you the first couple years are brutal. It’s extra observations under the guise of “support” and a lot of on-your-feet learning to do. Things will go wrong and you’ll need to recover quickly.

If you go in expecting those conditions and you [b]lean on your colleagues[/b], you can get to a great point. It never gets easier, but you learn to manage the chaos better. [/quote]

This is all well said. The bolded is very important. If the teachers on your team are not lifting you up, find others who will.

I always tell people to talk to as many current teachers as possible before committing, at least 8 or so.

Teaching can be awesome but it's also exhausting in every way and even the best assignments in the best buildings have elements of stupidity that you cannot escape. [/quote]

Oh, thanks for adding the “elements of stupidity” comment. That’s true.

I was a career changer all those years ago. One of the hardest parts of the transition was seeing behind the curtain at how education works. There’s always a mandated initiative to implement, only to forget it and implement a new one the following year. So much extra work for limited results, and often created by people who don’t know the conditions of the classroom.

OP, another thing to prepare for: the “experts” in the field aren’t teachers, so you’ll be given resources and curricula that don’t actually meet the needs of your classroom. You’ll need to spend time reworking these tools to actually suit your students. That’s where your colleagues can really help! [/quote]

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