What are your state standards? What are your students’ scores? What is the school’s goal for this group of students? What do individual students need from you? Organize this intel and you will be successful.Ģ. As simple as this sounds, you need to know what your teaching mission is.
Mission first: What’s my mission again?Without detailed specific orders, a mission will not succeed. Without it, I would struggle to manage the different personalities and cultures I see every day in the classroom,” says Moore.ġ. “My military experience was the best diversity training I could have asked for. Ryan Moore (CO ’15) is an 8th-grade science teacher at Liberty Point International School in Pueblo, Colorado. We asked four Milken Educators - and veterans of the United States Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Air National Guard - to reveal how their background in the armed forces helped prepare them for a career in education. Whether it’s honing communication skills or developing the courage to face challenges head-on, the values learned by United States military personnel can come in handy in the classroom, too. Milken Educators with military ties: clockwise from top left, Jonathan Kern (FL '03) Ryan Moore (CO '15) Larry Conley (OR '06) and Jenna White (AK '14)
