5 Things I Wish I knew in My First Year of Teaching.

Fathiya Barkadle, M.Ed.
3 min readSep 12, 2021

These are what I wished to have in my teaching career toolbox as a new teacher.

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  1. Be You and Only You!

Even though this might seem a cliché or catch phrase for some of us, in teaching world: you will get tons of what to do, what to be like around students, and so on. However, being you means that you take what works personally for you than what works…

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Fathiya Barkadle, M.Ed.

High School English Teacher/ELD Instructional Lead & Freelance-Writer Blogger.