'Proposals to arm American teachers to fight gunmen in schools are abhorrent and deflect from politicians' failures.'
I will never forget the afternoon before my very first day as a middle school teacher in central New Jersey. Textbooks and worksheets sat strewn across my bed in the house I shared with my father. I was 25 years old and had just received my teaching license. My nerves were frayed—as every novice teacher knows, there is absolutely nothing more terrifying than a new classroom full of young people.
On that day before school began, I had been obsessing over classroom procedures, introductory activities, and the first week's lessons that I hoped would be engaging. I did not sleep much the night before and survived my first week of teaching on pure adrenaline. I wondered whether my students would like me and whether they would want to be in my classroom. I was desperate to earn their families' trust and looked forward to the opportunity to forge relationships over the following year.
This was 16 years ago. My formal teacher preparation did not include workshops and simulations that dealt with the possibility of my demise the way teachers and students are now required to, with highly choreographedWhile we certainly had lockdown procedures, at that time they felt like a formality rather than a necessity. In 2006—the year I began my teaching career—there were 11 school shootings, and they all seemed to occur worlds away from my New Jersey classroom.
I now teach students at the college level. My job is centred on preparing future teachers to take charge of their own classrooms, an experience that culminates in state licensure. This process requires that they develop expertise in content, current theories and methods for effective teaching. Our simulations involve classroom read-alouds, Socratic questioning techniques and debates and discussions about themes in novels.
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