Hannah Tremura

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I have been a classroom teacher working with 8th grade students for the last 4 years and I am looking for a change in career. While I have chosen to leave the profession, I am excited to bring my unique experience to creative and corporate work while improving my work-life balance in a remote position. 

As I discovered when I started working in schools, teaching is more than building lessons, instruction, and grading. Teachers have to build quick and solid relationships quickly and communicate effectively with their students, those students’ families, their colleagues, and administrative staff. Classroom practices are most effective when they are data driven, requiring teachers to track and utilize data to plan instruction, as well as explain often complex data interpretations to adolescents of diverse academic levels. Having a successful classroom is a multifaceted goal, and so required me to balance my responsibilities in accordance with what my students and supervisors needed week-by-week. 

Teachers also aren’t islands unto themselves; it takes a village to close achievement gaps. I had meetings with other groups of teachers and staff members throughout the week to address classroom issues or district goals and plan how best to address those issues or goals. I took these meetings as learning opportunities to improve my practice alongside my peers and veteran teachers. The best outcome I received from these frequent collaborative meetings is that I’m much more outspoken and bold than I was when I started teaching. If I have a solution no one has suggested, I’m eager to bring that solution to attention and discuss it with the team I’m speaking with. I’m also, sometimes to a fault, not afraid to ask questions when I’m unclear on an issue in a large meeting. I learned quickly that, often, others had the same question that I do and the whole group benefited from my input.

Personally, I pride myself on always staying curious and trying to find better ways to accomplish a goal. My mindset is that of an eternal beginner; always looking to improve and never assuming that I’ve run out of room to grow. I will always need to set aside time to work on my own, but also always welcome the experience of others to better myself.