About this episode
If you can dodge a desk you can teach a classroom! Welcome back to Teachers Off Duty! This week our hosts Bri Richardson, Jess Smith, and Tyler Jackowski share their experiences as first year teachers. From being unprepared to teach the curriculum, to students questioning your abilities, the first year of teaching can prove to be extremely overwhelming. That's specifically true for our guest host Tyler, and he's here to tell you guys about all the mistakes he made his first year of teaching, and hopefully you guys can learn from them. We've all had those difficult students before, maybe it's the students having trouble focusing, maybe it's a gap in your teaching style, or maybe it's a combination of both. Either way this week Jess is sharing all of her tips and tricks she's learned about treating this situation to help all of our first year teachers out there. But as long as you don't make any students mad enough to throw a desk at you, your first year is probably going better than Bri's, tune in to find out the full story! All this being said, teaching must get easier as time goes on… right?! We briefly chat about how the veteran teachers treat the new guys, because although they are filled with great information, they can sometimes be stingy on who they give it out to. Better stay on their good side and maybe they'll give you some nice pointers on your lesson plan. Jump right to it! 2:30 - Classroom Antics 5:45 - Textbooks vs. Reality 11:25 - Roach-inspired Classroom Control 17:40 - The Art of Dodging Desks 22:50 - Embracing Generational Challenges 29:15 - Mastering Teaching 34:20 - Strategies for Classroom Management So limber up because you might have to dodge some flying furniture on this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty.