Achieving the Impossible

Autor/in	Anderson, Melissa
Titel	Achieving the Impossible
Quelle	In: Childhood Education, 85 (2009) 4, S.242- (1 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4056
Schlagwörter	Beginning Teachers; Self Efficacy; Self Esteem; Teacher Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg
Abstract	Beginning teachers can succeed only if they strongly believe that they can. Believe that it is possible to change each student's life for the better. Believe that all their students can become successful learners. Believe that they can raise their students' test scores. Believe that they will survive and accomplish great things in their first years of teaching. Time and time again, the author is inspired by her coworkers. Outsiders may consider her Title I school and its needy students likely to accomplish less than schools in more affluent neighborhoods. However, the students rise to meet their teachers' demanding standards each year. At her 4th-grade team meeting, a visiting specialist laughed when she heard the principal share their goals for state testing, and then declared them to be impossibly high. Yet, it is their high standards for students and teachers and their belief in the potential to reach them that allows them to achieve the "impossible." To overcome the terrible hardships of the first year of teaching, the author advises beginning teachers to believe firmly in their professional calling. New teachers must know they were born to be educators, and will be so in spite of torturous paperwork and planning, confrontation with parents and possibly coworkers, and exhaustion from the demands of learning while teaching. They must believe that they will succeed. They must remember that they are not alone in their struggles as a new teacher. New teachers must make time to seek a mentor, continue their involvement in ACEI, and keep in touch with college friends. With encouragement and support, however impossible it may seem at first, as a new teacher one can achieve truly great things! (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Association for Childhood Education International. 17904 Georgia Avenue Suite 215, Olney, MD 20832. Tel: 800-423-3563; Tel: 301-570-2111; Fax: 301-570-2212; e-mail: headquarters@acei.org; Web site: http://www.acei.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10