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Navigating the Complexities of Secondary Teaching: Insights from the Making a Difference Symposium

This symposium explored the multifaceted experiences of secondary teachers, including their expectations, rewards, challenges, and frustrations. Insights from Ronnie Davey, Susan Lovett, Cheryl Stephens, and Ruth Kane emphasized the realities of teaching, balancing the joys of student engagement and success with the challenges of workload, classroom management, and emotional strain. With a particular focus on the diverse demands placed on teachers in various contexts, the discussions highlighted the nuanced "emotional landscape" of secondary education and the ongoing quest for professional satisfaction.

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Navigating the Complexities of Secondary Teaching: Insights from the Making a Difference Symposium

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  1. MAKING A DIFFERENCE SYMPOSIUM Being a secondary teacher Ronnie Davey, Susan Lovett, Cheryl Stephens & Ruth Kane

  2. BEING A SECONDARY TEACHER N = 65 transcripts V dissatisfied = 1 Dissatisfied = 9 Dissatisfied - satisfied = 6 Satisfied = 36 V satisfied = 13

  3. AREAS OF FOCUS • Expectations • Rewards • Challenges • Frustrations

  4. WHAT RESPONSES /THEMES WOULD YOU ANTICIPATE? • Expectations • Rewards • Challenges • Frustrations

  5. EXPECTATIONS…. • Hard work • Frustration • Lots of preparation • Busy and challenging • Enjoyable and rewarding • Easier with own classes • Ample resources and • Vicarious familiarity

  6. REALITY… • Not easier with own class • Context-specific • Unfinished symphony/rock opera • No recipe - trial and error • Grind and challenge of teaching juniors • Developing identity - “authority of experience” • Extreme highs and lows - “emotional landscape”

  7. REWARDS… • Seeing success and learning happening • Affirmation • Sense of getting things right • Strong relationships with students

  8. CHALLENGES… • Workload • New subjects • Assessment • Feeling a burden to others • Managing the classroom - motivation and behaviour • Juggling everything

  9. FRUSTRATIONS… • Student work output • Never-ending nature of the work • Lack of resources • Lack of support - formal observations & feedback • Impatience with own skill level and knowledge • Emotional hurt - worrying - balancing life and work - feeling overwhelmed

  10. SO WHAT…? • Predictability??? • Vital nature of the context in satisfaction/dissatisfaction • Location - particular demands of area schools and sole subject teaching • Subject differences in conceptualisation of roles • Role of maturity

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