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.
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.
