Photo 136 I am a teacher. I am a learner. I have worked in schools, libraries, staff rooms, conference rooms, bookshops and businesses; always teaching always, hopefully, learning.

I have worked with bright-eyed would be teachers and hardened admin-weary teachers. I have worked with middle-school students and in adult learning and vocational education. I have been a mother, a step mother, reviewer, a herb-farmer, a lotions and potions maker and a writer of poetry that nobody sees.

From the mistakes I have made, from the journeys of self-discovery and the side roads I have taken in fifty-two years of living, I would like share my small sum of experience to encourage the people who do the most challenging job I know of. Teachers.

Especially beginning teachers, who confront a myriad of complications they never imagined existed when they completed their qualifications.

I have no affiliations to any particular group, am not employed by any organisation, am currently self-employed writing about and for education. My bias and agenda are all my own! But for full transparency I am VIT registered and an AEU paid up member.

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