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September 2019 | Volume 77 | Number 1 What New Teachers Need Pages 72-76
Paul Bruno
New research suggests school leaders need to be more thoughtful about new teacher placements—and the whole nexus of related working conditions.
Before I took my first job as a middle school science teacher, one of the biggest challenges I faced was figuring out where I wanted to teach. It wasn't just that it was hard to know which school offered the kind of working environment I wanted, it was that I didn't even know exactly what kind of working environment I wanted in the first place. I didn't have a clear sense of the kinds of students I wanted to work with, the colleagues I wanted to have, or the organizational structures I wanted to work within.
I ended up getting lucky, landing a job in a school that offered many of the things I knew I did want—like highly organized and committed coworkers—as well as some things I didn't know I wanted, like the ability to stay with the same students through both 7th and 8th grade.
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