Final Narrative Repost
Since joining Teach for America, my life has drastically changed. I had come from zero teaching experience and was thrust into the classroom after just 6 weeks of training during summer school in Philadelphia. During that time, I learned a lot of terminology and concepts revolving pedagogy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, equity vs. equality, etc. However, implementing these into my own curriculum during my first year was difficult. I often feel that reflection is an important part of growth. For me, I take a lot of time to reflect mentally and how I can improve in the future or what I could have done differently in the past. I reflect on many components of my life, but having just wrapped up my first year of teaching, much my time has been spent on how to move forward into year two. I thought a lot about what I was able to provide for my students versus what I wasn’t. I believe my classroom culture was strong and they were learning skills, but I wasn’t making meaningful