In many ways when you are teaching and making decisions about books to teach, assignments to give, etc. you really just have to trust yourself and your knowledge. That might sound overly simplistic, but you have been to college for at least four years, and you _do_ know more than your students both about English and about teaching (and arguably about life). That's not to say that you will never make mistakes or modify your practice to make it better. I just mean (as you know) that so many of these issues we're discussing have no right or wrong "answer." You prepare as much as you can, walk into your classroom, and do what you know you can do. Make every day a new day and leave negativity behind when you go home at night--focus on the joy, in other words, of being a teacher. It really is awesome, and I have a feeling that all of you, like me, simply couldn't do anything else. No matter what our future professions may be, we will always be teachers at heart. It's just who we are.
Janet
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