This is a guest post by Mark Joseph, a sixth-grade math teacher at KIPP Rise Academy in Newark, where he has taught for ten years. It was first published at Education Post.
I am currently in my 12th year of teaching. I spent my first two years in The Bronx at P.S. 211 and have spent these past 10 years in Newark at Rise Academy. What follows is a series of recommendations to myself—the first, what I thought teaching to be before I started teaching at Rise, and the second, what I realized teaching actually was after doing it for 10 years in Newark. I really wish I knew the second set of recommendations before I started. Still, I’m really glad I know them now.
Good luck, Mark. Year 1 at Rise. Wow.
You’re going to teach so many kids.
Here are some tips for the road ahead (in no particular order):
Just think about how much you will know after years at Rise.
Or how many lives you will shape.
Or how much kindness you will share with others.
I can only imagine.
P.S. Your kids will change the world one day.
You’re lucky, Mark. Year 10 at Rise. Wow.
You’ve been taught by so many kids.
Here are some tips for the road ahead (in no particular order):
Just think about how much you still don’t know after (almost) 10 years at Rise.
Or how many lives have shaped yours.
Or how much kindness you’ve received from others.
It’s unimaginable.
P.S. Your kids already do.
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