Excelling in your job a s a teacher

Teaching jobs can be very rewarding but they can also be extremely stressful not only having to cope with disruptive lessons but also finding the time to plan and mark work but also to create the material needed to carry out your lessons. On top of this you may also have parent’s evenings and courses / meetings which you need to attend.

So how do you excel in your job with all this pressure? After talking to many teachers they have said that it takes time to work out what works and what does not work and a lot of it is trial and error until you find the best way to do something. It may be that you teach a topic one term and quickly find out that you needed to explain a certain part in more detail or in a different way so adapt your lesson plans for next time. Even experienced teachers struggle with their job from time to time, but knowing how to cope and learning how to improve will make you a better teacher in the long run.