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Letters to a First Year Teacher: The Compilation
Dear First Year Teacher,
We have all been in the same place as you as your are about to start your first year teaching and we wanted to give you some thoughts and advice from our individual perspectives. Below are 19 different letters from teachers of various subjects (mostly math and physics). The letters are also compiled as a Google Doc or pdf for those who would prefer the advice in that form as opposed to clicking through various teaching blogs. If you are looking for great teachers to follow on twitter and great blogs to read, this is a wonderful (though of course not complete) list that would be a great place to start.
*Note 1: If you would still like to submit a letter, go for it! I will update, and Drawing on Math will still compile them here.
*Note 2: The quotes I picked for each post are not the titles of the original posts as written by the writers – they are somewhat random quotes from somewhere in their letter that I thought were poignant, unique, or interesting.
Sam Shah, @samjshah, on Continuous Everywhere But Differentiable Nowhere
Daniel Schneider, @MathyMcMatherso, on Mathy McMatherson
Jason Buell, @jybeull, Always Formative
Grace Chen, @graceachen, on Educating Grace
Kelly O’Shea, @kellyoshea, on Physics! Blog
Breedeen Murray, @btwnthenumbers, on The Space Between the Numbers
Mimi Yang, @untilnextstop, on I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down
John Burk, @occam98, on Quantum Progress
Sophie Germain, @sophgermain, on A Brand New Line
Bowman Dickson, @bowmanimal, on Bowman in Arabia
Michael Pershan, @mpershan, on Rational Expressions
Fawn Nguyen, @fawnpnguyen, on her Untitled Blog
Tina C, @crstn85, on Drawing on Math
Joe Kremer, @josephlkremer, on Observations First
Renee, @approx_normal, on Approximately Normal
Stephen Lazar, @SLazarOtC, on Outside the Cave
Emily H, posted here on Bowman in Arabia
Tom H, posted here on Bowman in Arabia
[Updated 7/2]
Kate Nowak, @k8nowak, on f(t)
Laura Kinnel, @LauraKinnel, on Continuous Reflection
Jackie Ballarini, @jackieb, on Continuities
Lance Bledsoe, @bledsoe, on his Untitled Blog