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Why is resilience important in teaching?

The preservice teachers acknowledged the importance of resilience in teaching. They were aware of:

  • The intensity and complexities of teaching;
  • High expectations and high accountability;
  • Being role models to students (in modelling resilient behaviours);
  • Needing to be flexible and adaptive “going with the flow”;
  • Needing to acknowledge the need for support and be able to ask for support throughout your teaching career;
  • Resilience as being important for all aspects of life.

They identified particular challenges of being preservice teachers:

  • Working in another person's space;
  • Having to quickly develop relationships;
  • Becoming familiar with appropriate strategies, processes;
  • Critical role of the supervising teacher;
  • Uncertainty of who you will work with and the potential mismatch between expectations, philosophies and approaches;
  • Professional experience is a high stakes assessment process – tension between what you would like to do and fitting into what is being already done.
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