Teaching is often filled with daily struggles, whether it be getting your students to perform at their best or follow through on the scope and sequence you set out for yourself at the beginning of the year amidst the constant interruptions and distractions of schedules. I think my personal greatest struggle thus far has been being a first year teacher while still taking graduate courses. I have had to work long days and sacrifice quite a bit of my free time to keep up with the demands of both my job and my classes. Ask any teacher and they will tell you that the first year of teaching is the hardest and I could not agree more. There is a lot of planning, preparing, and adjusting that goes into being a first year teaching. There are a lot of new responsibilities and demands, trials and errors, and other adjustments. However, I feel that having been in those graduate courses has been therapeutic and has helped me to get through this first year since there were classmates in the same situation. It has been helpful to share my experiences and learn about theirs. All in all, I feel that I have grown a great deal this year despite this struggle of teaching and taking classes at night.
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