It's a confession. It's a condition. But I am not in recovery. I am embracing this condition. And trying to be contagious.
The first step to creating this blog was to learn to spell the word: millennial. I'm a first generation spell-check graduate. Why do we have two "n"s in that word, anyway?
I digress.
As a teacher, millennialness has its downsides. But it can be wonderful.
Millennial teachers are passionate, collaborative, innovative teachers who are leading classrooms in the quest to prepare students for the new world. The same one Christopher Columbus discovered except completely different. Millennial teachers will push the envelope to get students thinking outside the newest box. We have students who will create, innovate, and collaborate during the next generation. We solve problems. We are efficient, creative, social.
Millennial teachers are determined, having faced an economy where jobs were a dream-come-true and careers seemed to be as evasive as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. We survived school reform, standardized testing experiments, and principals who had their paddles taken away from them suddenly and without warning. Millennial teachers want change and you want our vote.
Millennials are young--born after 1980. But don't hold that against us.
My name is Rebecca and I am a millennial teacher.
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