The Subtle Side of Teaching: Small Things That Make a Big Difference in Your Classroom

Training, placing, and retaining highly qualified teachers in our nation’s schools has become a very serious challenge in the 21st century. Many factors contribute to teachers’ relative levels of satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, with their careers. Some of these factors are rather obvious and tangible; others are not. Many teachers fade, sometimes rather quickly, from unmet personal expectations, overwhelming external requirements, and subsequent “running out of gas.” Some of the very simp...