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    How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching: One Teacher's Journey
    How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching: One Teacher's Journey
    How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching: One Teacher's Journey
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    How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching: One Teacher's Journey

    By Sylvia A. Wright

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    How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching is about the struggles an educator faced and how she overcame those struggles in her early days of teaching. The journey begins with the challenges she faced after graduating from college and the difficulties she encountered trying to acquire her first teaching job. It then takes the reader through the different obstacles she confronted each school year. Its a detailed account about how she endured and overcame student misbehavior and disrespect, a lack of support and cooperation from her principal and assistant principal, disrespect from parents, lack of parental support, lack of student motivation, and her battle with depression.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9781449749668
    How I Survived the First Five Years of Teaching: One Teacher's Journey
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    Sylvia A. Wright

    Sylvia A. Wright has been teaching English/language arts and reading for eight years. She received her bachelor’s degree in middle grades education from Fayetteville State University in 2003. She majored in English/language arts and minored in social studies. She began teaching in 2004 at Mayewood Middle School in Sumter, South Carolina. In 2006, she received a master’s degree in divergent learning at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to teaching at Mayewood, she taught at Tilden Middle School in Rockville, Maryland, and Benton Middle School in Benton, Louisiana. She currently teaches at Cane Bay Middle School in Summerville, South Carolina.

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