A Warm Welcome to Teachers Everywhere!

Thank you for visiting my teaching blog!

If you're a new teacher, I want to assure you--everything is going to be all right.

From time to time, I'll offer my humble advice to help solve some of the problems we all encounter in the teaching profession. To read more, please check out my book from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Classroom Advice for New Teachers: A Proactive Approach for Meeting the Daily Challenges of the Profession. If you like, you can order it through Amazon at this address:  https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07NC8S9B6 or www.amazon.com/author/jeffjulian. You can access it from the publisher's website at this address: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475849110/Classroom-Advice-for-New-Teachers-A-Proactive-Approach-for-Meeting-the-Daily-Challenges-of-the-Profession.

For my first post, I'd like to offer what I believe to be a central truth about our profession:

It is a tremendous privilege for us to stand in front of a group of young people and presume to explain to them what the world is like.

Whether you're studying to become a teacher or you're already a seasoned veteran, we all need to remember to look at our chosen profession with the proper perspective. Not many people have the privilege of influencing so many, at such an impressionable time of their lives. Try not to get distracted by the daily frustrations that enter your lives and your classrooms, and remember the honor that it is to play such a significant role in the lives of your students. When you remind them that you are aware of that privilege, many of those distractions and frustrations will be minimized.

I'm very interested to read your questions, thoughts and comments. Please feel free to post your responses!