PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Luann's Thoughts
Do you remember your first year of teaching? My first teaching job was at Alvin Junior High. I started there at the beginning of the second semester. Oh my goodness, it was challenging and I had no one to give me guidance. After a couple of years, I felt like I really knew what I was doing in the classroom. I decided then that I would do whatever I could to make a new teacher’s first year a little less stressful. As the years passed, I had the opportunity to serve as a mentor to several teachers in my department. Then the district created a new program for mentors, the Master Mentor Program. It required you to complete an application and to be interviewed by an administrator in the Alternative Certification Program. With that said, I was accepted into the Master Mentor Program. It was a lot of training and a lot of work, but it was worth every minute. There are a few of us in Epsilon Rho that were Master Mentors. In the last newsletter, Laura wrote an article about teachers with the teaching blues. By this time of year many new teachers are experiencing disillusionment, wondering if they are going to make it to the end of the school year. This month our program is floral arranging. We are going to make a small arrangement to be given to a new teacher. I hope that you will attend and join in on the fun and take your flowers to a new teacher the next day. Let her know you are there for her.
LuAnn
LuAnn
