Don’t Quit: Tips for Surviving Teaching

Originally published in TEACH Magazine, September/October 2016 Issue

By Meagan Gillmore

Abbi Easton has found her groove. She was “absolutely terrified” when she began teaching Grade 9 science and math at Holy Trinity Catholic High School in Fort McMurray, AB, three years ago. She’d heard stories; she knew teenagers “could eat [her] alive.”

The curriculum presented challenges. Math education had changed. She was learning, too. Easton loves technology, but a scavenger hunt where students used computer scanners around the school was an “epic fail,” she recalls.

Meagan Gillmore

Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.