New Teacher Advice – ‘Hold On To Your Optimism & Idealism’

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Your job is to grow your students to become independent, self-directed learners not for someday in the distant future, but right now. Students deserve to have clarity on the following questions:

• Why do I have to learn this? What value is it to me?
• How will I be assessed?
• How will I be judged?
• How will I be supported during the learning experience?