You Know You're a First-Year Teacher When...

You Know You're a First-Year Teacher When...

(the BEFORE student edition)

- You find random furniture in sitting in front of your classroom each day after word got out that you were in desperate need of a few items.

- Other faculty members don't know your name quite yet so you just get called, "Miss."

- You tend to walk into work looking lost, so someone almost always asks, "Do you need any help this morning?"

- You yawn...a lot.

- When people ask how your lesson planning is going you start to laugh as you say, "Lesson plans? I don't have time for those yet!"

- When you attend yet another faculty meeting you find yourself asking the veterans sitting next to you, "So just what is this for?"

- When you come home and your family asks, "What's for dinner?" you try to make the all important decision between peanut butter and jelly or a run through the nearest fast food joint.

And finally...

- Sleep? What is sleep?