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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m all about this.  Injecting some teachers with actual subject matter expertise will be great for kids.[/quote]

I’m a career switcher. I’ve been teaching for almost 20 years now after spending time in “the real world.”

I went into teaching thinking it would be a breeze because I’m smart and I had real-world experience.

And then the classroom knocked me down. Hard. Fast. Teaching is SO MUCH MORE than content knowledge. It’s entertaining, presenting, conflict resolving, diversifying, planning, pivoting, motivating, nursing, evaluating, analyzing, mothering, drill-instructoring, disciplining, accommodating… all at the same time.

I know people like to think you can “just teach,” but it is a skilled profession. You need content knowledge, but you also have to know how to run a classroom. A lot of these DCUM posts scare me because they sound like the young, career-switching me who thought I could do so much better than those poor education majors because I was coming in with “real” skills.

I was so wrong. I’ve survived 20 years and I’m really good at what I do, but I certainly wasn’t at first. I had to learn HOW to teach, not just how to be smart.

If new teachers, including career-switching Feds, come in prepared to learn, then they can do well. If you think your experience will get you respect from kids, you’ll learn the lesson the way I did. [/quote]

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