Dear Fellow Teacher,
I used to dread going to school in the morning to teach. I would have a big knot in the pit of my stomach just
thinking about my class.
- I really love to learn.
- I really love to teach.
- I really wanted to make a difference in the lives of my students, but I kept getting frustrated.
- I started to think about getting out of teaching, quitting and changing careers.
- I was fed up, frustrated and fearful.
Remember when you graduated from teachers’ college…
You had all that energy, enthusiasm and expertise to make a difference, especially with disadvantaged students who
struggle to get through each and every day? You looked forward to teaching any and all students in your class. You
spent an incredible amount of time getting your classroom set up during the summer.
It was a warm, welcoming and wonderful classroom—one of the best classrooms in the entire school. You were nervous
that first day, not knowing what to expect. Then you met your students. They sat in their desks, alert, attentive and anxious
to be taught by you. The first day was an exhausting but an exhilarating, exciting experience. You couldn’t wait to get back
to school and teach them some more.
Then, it happened…
It may have been in the first week, or in the first month or in the first term, but it happened.
Your students aren’t attentive any more. They’re off task. They’re defiant. The hours and hours you’ve spent on those
picture perfect lesson plans seem to go out the window. Your students are becoming more and more defiant. You get
more and more frustrated with them, lose your cool more often and go home empty, exhausted and emotionally upset.
In spite of all these problems and challenges, you’re still passionate about teaching. You still love to learn. You still love
to teach. You still love children.
But, you’re running on empty, especially with those students who defy you more and more often, who seem to have taken
over your class, who don’t seem to care anymore. You don’t know what to do. You don’t want to confess to other teachers
that you’re experiencing problems with your class. That would be a sign of weakness. You don’t want to confess to your
principal that you’re experiencing problems. That might mean not getting rehired or worse—that you weren’t meant to be
a teacher.
You don’t want to talk to any parents, because word would quickly get out that you can’t control your class, that you’re an
ineffective, incapable and worse, an incompetent teacher. The school year has barely started and you’re already counting
the days, hours and minutes to the end of the term.
You keep hoping each day will be better, but instead it gets worse. You start thinking about getting out of teaching, quitting
and changing careers. You’re fed up, frustrated and fearful. You want the joy, the respect and the fulfillment from a
ewarding teaching career, but now, you just don’t know what to do.
How do I know all this?
To put it very simply, I know exactly what you’re going through in a very personal way because I’ve been there myself.
In fact, I’m still there. Teaching is tough, time-consuming and a trial by fire. No one really understands what it’s like to teach
all by yourself, all alone, isolated from adults in front of a group of disinterested, disruptive and defiant students, than
another teacher.
“You are making a difference in the lives of students and in the world.” Harry Wong
Harry Wong is, arguably, the most motivational speaker in education. He is the author of The First Days of School, which has sold over 2 million copies. His techniques have been adapted by thousands of educators for success in their schools and classrooms, which explains why Harry Wong is the most sought after speaker in education today. He has been called Mr. Practicality for his common - sense, research-based, no - cost approach to managing a classroom for high - level student success.
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For 27 years, I’ve been teaching in the trenches, on the front lines, in the firing zone. I’m in the class with my students,
day in and day out, just like you. I go through a roller coaster of emotions with them every day, the highs and lows, the
failures and successes, the joys and disappointments of daily teaching.
And just like you, I thought that my students would automatically love to learn, love the subjects that I taught and hunger
for more knowledge as much as I do. Boy, was I wrong!
Teachers’ College never gave me the effective teaching techniques needed to deal with the 30+ students crowded into
classes, students with ADD, ADHD, OCD, Tourette’s Syndrome, oppositional behaviour, fetal alcohol syndrome, students
3 or more years below grade level in reading and math, bullies, abused students, temper tantrums, aggressive behaviour.
I was probably the most challenging student of Mr. Glavac's "most challenging class of his career". Coming into his class in grade six, in a brand new school in a low income neighbourhood, I carried a lot with me. Like a lot of the 30+ students in that crammed portable, I came from a broken home, with a low income single mother stressed from raising 2 kids as a labourer in a local factory that laid her off more than gave her work.
I had already been introduced to drugs and alcohol via the local dealers who happened to be my next door neighbours. In twelve years of living, I had seen enough violence in my house, friends' houses and my neighbourhood, to turn any young impressionable mind into a savage. Most teachers would have put in for a transfer within the first week, but Mr. G took our class on head first.
Kids coming to school everyday dealing with the above mentioned, plus some of them I imagine were hungry, and had illnesses, didn't.... no... couldn't be expected to -have much of an appetite for learning. Mr. Glavac recognized this and somehow came to see that the way to make us learn was to distract us from what was going on around us. He needed to find something that would get us so excited about doing it and what the end result could be, that we would forget what was going on around us, even if it was just from 9am - 3:30 p.m.
The way to do this was technology. Most, if not all of us did not have a computer, and because the funding was so poor at our previous schools barely any one knew how to turn one on , let alone type essays and send them electronically over this thing called the World Wide Web.
Well , to put it frankly, it worked!
He did have a few challenges still however. Violent acts of rage, and disrupting outbursts from me and some of the students who followed my still unfound leadership.
Teaching home row for keyboarding to the kids who suffered from ADD,
and ADHD must have been hard also. When I look back, I can see how from month to month, we were becoming less and less interested in acting out in class, and more focused on our new found task at hand; to research and type stories and then put them together in an electronic newspaper and send it to schools around the world.
WOW! Most of us had never left our neighbourhood, and now were going to be communicating with other kids from New Zealand ! And it seemed to snow ball from there. Mr G sent out the word of what we were doing and all of a sudden we were being interviewed by CFPL News (our local network) TVO, Global television, The London Free Press, and The Toronto Star . We were shown that no matter what was going on around us, if we put our minds to something, we can do what ever we want.
We only had Mr Glavac for one year, but what he gave us will last a lifetime.
Over the next decade, there were the drug dealing, the rash of stabbings, shootings, murders, friends killing each other, committing suicide, overdosing and going to prison. All of which seemed as though they were an all too regular occurrence.
Then there were my own stints with the law and institutions, and extremely violent behavior, I still knew that if I put my mind to something, I could do whatever I want.
I made the honors roll in grade nine, got a full scholarship for Fanshawe College's Tool & Die program, own my own town house and have a beautiful 21 month old daughter. I work a very large auto parts producer and am saving money to go to the University of Western Ontario next year for their economics program as I eventually want to be a lawyer I think?
I know that I want to make a difference somehow. It's 5:21 p.m on Tuesday night, and I have tears running down my face. I told Mr. G that I would have this ready for him by Wednesday and I will not go back on my word with the man I learned so much from and who showed me how to be a great leader. You see, at 7:00 p.m I have to be at my old but at one time, one of my best friend's visitation. He was found dead over the weekend. He choked to death on his own vomit from alcohol or drugs . But, no matter what goes on around you, if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.
And through it all, no matter what i did in his class, Mr. G never gave up on me and that in turn, taught me to never give up on myself.
Sincerely,
Justin Burggraeve
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You know exactly what I’m talking about: the classes from hell!
Then there are the parents who question your teaching, think that their child can do no wrong, and bypass your authority
by going directly to the principal with complaints against you.
And if that weren’t enough, there’s the public who think all you do is play games and baby-sit, resent all your vacation days,
time off, professional development days and tell you in no uncertain terms how they feel about it, have no idea how to teach,
but go to great lengths telling you how to teach.
And there’s still more. There’s the paper work, the extra-curricular activities, keeping up with the latest technology and doing
all this on a limited or no budget, no resources, and no time.
Mr. Glavac was my grade 7 teacher. Being from a small rural town, Mr. Glavac opened up a whole new world for me and my classmates. None of us had traveled outside our town. Mr. Glavac inspired us with stories of his travels behind the iron curtain into Eastern Europe, France, Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Italy. As a direct result of his sharing of his travel experiences, and making the outside world come alive, I was inspired to travel and teach in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the Philippines, England and France.
He taught me grammar. He was insistent that we know good grammar and punctuation. He was the only teacher besides a high school teacher in my final year who spent the time and effort to teach good grammar. I’m glad he did. It made a big difference when I went to university and had to write essays.
I wasn’t into sports and the social scene. For students like me there wasn’t much to look forward to in school. Mr. Glavac introduced me to computers by starting a computer club with 6 Commodore 64 computers networked together. As a direct result of this, I became interested in computers and programming and now teach computers and technology.
Mr. Glavac made a difference in my life and inspired me to do my best.
David Sornberger
Principal Scott Young Public School
Omemee, Ontario, Canada
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