Teacher Idenity

Going from college classes to student teacher to finally a teacher is the natural progression in the education of teachers. What people don't realize or understand is that until we are a teacher we identify ourselves still as students. This search for our identity as a teacher can make the first few years of teaching that much more difficult.

This topic and many others are covered in a book called, Early Career English Teachers in Action. In chapter () all the personal narratives cover teachers telling stories about how they found their own identity as a teacher. Reading these stories help beginner teachers not feel alone, and gives insight to what it's really like as you transition from student to teacher, like me,

Topics like teacher identity are extremely important for teachers to discuss and know about in their first few years of teaching for many reasons. One being that it helps with classroom management as well as increased confidence for the teacher. Both are very important things when it comes to running to a classroom. This important step in forming an identity makes you become the teacher you need to be and want to be as your career goes further on. This article is a personal experience of a student teacher turning into a teacher herself. https://ed.psu.edu/englishpds/inquiry/projects/yerkes04.htm