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Duke A Teaching Life

New teachers often leave the profession within the first three years, not because of low pay but because reality does not match their expectations. Their expectations were formed through student teaching experiences and media portrayals, which do not accurately reflect the daily challenges of teaching. The biggest challenge is motivating and controlling student behavior, as students often do not want to learn or work hard. Additionally, teachers must understand each student's individual needs and background, why students behave differently, and how to use their knowledge to create engaging lessons and learning experiences that help students succeed. Mastering these skills takes significant observation, practice, and adaptation.

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Duke A Teaching Life

New teachers often leave the profession within the first three years, not because of low pay but because reality does not match their expectations. Their expectations were formed through student teaching experiences and media portrayals, which do not accurately reflect the daily challenges of teaching. The biggest challenge is motivating and controlling student behavior, as students often do not want to learn or work hard. Additionally, teachers must understand each student's individual needs and background, why students behave differently, and how to use their knowledge to create engaging lessons and learning experiences that help students succeed. Mastering these skills takes significant observation, practice, and adaptation.

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Duke- A Teaching Life Summary

Approximately one third of new teachers on the job leave the field within their first
three years. Surprisingly, however, many of these teachers don’t leave because of the pay. The
reason many of these teachers leave teaching is because reality doesn’t live up to their
expectations. Many of the expectations these teachers created come from direct experience in
the field, for example, student teaching, or reading a book about teaching. The problem is that
often times these direct experiences don’t match up with what the job looks like from day to
day, and these teachers can’t adjust to the reality. Expectations are also made up of what is
shown in the media about teaching.
The biggest issue on the top of the list for why new teachers leave is that they aren’t
able to motivate and control the behavior of the students. The teachers want the students to
want to learn and be enthusiastic about the class. However, the reality is that this is often not
the case. Students come to school unwilling to listen, learn, and work hard. Even if teachers
don’t want to control their students’ behaviors, they do want to make a positive change in their
knowledge, skills, and attitudes, but again, this is not always possible.
All of the students in a classroom will be coming from many different places and life
experiences, so it can be hard to figure out how to teach a class to best fit every child’s needs.
One challenge is to figure out how the mind works and why children behave the way they do.
Sometimes, children will blatantly ignore the directions you just gave, begin to cry every time
you talk to them, or decide to interrupt your lecture for no reason. It can be very difficult for
the teacher to understand why the children do these types of things. Another challenge is
understanding how the environment (physically, intellectually, emotionally, etc) can affect the
workings of a student. Nature and nurture both have a very large part in how a child develops.
The third challenge is to master the machinery that creates change in human behavior
and thinking. The final challenge is that teaching requires skillful application of knowledge.
Many students will be unenthused about learning, and it is the teacher’s job to make the
learning exciting and engaging. It takes much more skill than simply explaining things
thoroughly to the students and reasoning with them. The teacher must be able to structure
experiences in the classroom to create opportunities for the students to succeed.
Teachers can create success in the classroom by setting it up to bring the best out of
every child. This takes a lot of observation and practice, but the way the classroom is run can
always be adapted when figuring the best way to run things.

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