Hi,

There can be a wide range of challenges facing teachers like how to get along with colleagues and the school administration when you are a new teacher or when you move to a new school , or how to make your lesson plans, how to deal with parents, how to find resources to supplement a course, how to teach reading or writing, etc... But, I will make a guess here and will assume you mean dealing with students in the classroom: One of the problems I struggled to overcome when I had started my career as a teacher is how to make my students work in groups. I admit that it was difficult at first to the point I thought i would give it up all together. But, I had fortunately attended a classroom with a veteran teacher and it this experience changed me forever. I also chose "cooperative Learning" as my Research Project that year. This goes back to the year 2000. Now, I am pretty confident about smoothly getting my students to worjk in groups and occasionally give advice to new colleagues about that.

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