| IS... |
IS NOT... |
| a year for learning to teach, with feedback. |
a year of ordeal; you will face the common ordeal of new teachers soon enough. |
| a year for protected and supported practice teaching. |
your first year of teaching. You will still do that--without support, probably. |
| a year for combining practice with time to think and analyze. |
a year to exhaust yourself teaching; that will come soon, and you will be paid then. |
| a year for working with others and learning from that. |
a year for teaching by yourself; you will be on your lonesome soon enough. |
| a year in which trouble is normal (because teaching is hard). |
a year in which you prove that you are a fabulous teacher; that’s not where we start. |
| a year to combine practice with formal study. |
a year when you start teaching and stop your professional learning. |
| a year for building a practice of teaching, by using what you have studied. |
a year for griping because you didn’t apply yourself in preceding years. |
