Prepared for an ideal classroom, not reality, new teachers struggle from day one

By Lorena Salud Gadella Kamstra, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham

Many teachers enter the profession full of motivation, only to find that the reality of the classroom is very different from what they were taught to expect.

Once teachers are settled in their role, marking, administration and lesson preparation leave little time for reflection. Even teachers who want to try something new may fall back on what they know when faced with the daily pressures of the job.

A shortage of teachers is an ongoing concern in countries around…

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