Jane Satrom Attitude
Jane Satrom has been a high school English teacher for 24 years. She currently works at MacArthur Senior High School as a 10th grade pre-AP English teacher for about 200 students. She has also previously worked as an 11th grade AP English Language and Composition teacher and intends to continue working as an English teacher for as long as she can. With her positive attitude, immense amount of self-control, amazing time-management, and selflessness, Mrs. Satrom is the embodiment of success in the teaching field not only because she is a wonderful teacher but because she loves what she is doing.
In order to properly advance and put forth their best effort, people must have the correct attitude towards what they are doing. A positive attitude is, after all, absolutely necessary to achieve success since it influences the outcome of a task more than any other factor (Jacobs 2016). Jane Satrom definitely fits the bill when it comes to having a positive attitude. During her first year as a teacher, Mrs. Satrom recounts having two students who tested her patience and good heart. The two African-American students “accused [her] …show more content…
This mostly goes hand-in-hand with the time-management necessary to be a successful teacher. Since there are only so many hours in a week (168 to be exact) and in order to not die of malnutrition or exhaustion some of that time has to be spent eating and sleeping, Mrs. Satrom spends a majority of her free time grading papers or coming up with new ways to present information to her students in an exciting manner. She chooses to solely focus on work during the school year which, she admits, takes a toll on her social life, but her students are her number one priority so she does not worry about it too much and instead rejoices during the months of June and July when “[she comes] to life” (J. Satrom, personal communication, September 27,
In order to properly advance and put forth their best effort, people must have the correct attitude towards what they are doing. A positive attitude is, after all, absolutely necessary to achieve success since it influences the outcome of a task more than any other factor (Jacobs 2016). Jane Satrom definitely fits the bill when it comes to having a positive attitude. During her first year as a teacher, Mrs. Satrom recounts having two students who tested her patience and good heart. The two African-American students “accused [her] …show more content…
This mostly goes hand-in-hand with the time-management necessary to be a successful teacher. Since there are only so many hours in a week (168 to be exact) and in order to not die of malnutrition or exhaustion some of that time has to be spent eating and sleeping, Mrs. Satrom spends a majority of her free time grading papers or coming up with new ways to present information to her students in an exciting manner. She chooses to solely focus on work during the school year which, she admits, takes a toll on her social life, but her students are her number one priority so she does not worry about it too much and instead rejoices during the months of June and July when “[she comes] to life” (J. Satrom, personal communication, September 27,