Your first year of teaching is never “easy”. People have all kinds of stories from their beginnings in education. Some funny, some embarrassing, and some are just plain cringey. Â
My first year of teaching ended in disaster. This is not an exaggeration. There literally was a natural disaster. A tornado(s) went right through Nashville. Growing up in Appalachia in the middle of the forest, I had no idea a tornado could hit a city. It can. It did. I had left 15 min. before it hit, and had been in my classroom till six at night the whole week until the day of the tornado. Everyone thought I was still in there, and had the police dogs search my portable to see if I was still in there underneath the debris. I finished the year on a cart and working from the stage of the cafeteria. I learned a lot about myself & what a wonderful community can do in the face of adversity. Â
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