resilience

resilience is a very important characteristic to have not only as a teacher, but also for life in general. I know that teaching is a difficult profession because of the amount of chaos a teacher deals with every day, but learning how to cope with stress and disfunction is so very important, especially as a person in a leadership position.

I feel that the only way we can better prepare teachers is to give them more experience working with other experienced teachers. There is a lot of valuable knowledge that can be gained working with an experienced teacher. If we had teachers student teach for longer periods of time, or with multiple teachers - not only would they see many different styles of teaching but they would also have more experience in the classroom and in turn more experience dealing with difficult situations.