Some words of wisdom from some of our Silverbacks. 

I would make my young self understand that any time I get into a pissing match with a student, lose.  I used to think no matter what as the teacher “I win” it’s never that simple.  Be ye strong skilled and strong willed!

Create a document of my classes with links.   I Cant tell you how much time I've lost looking for a document the next time I teach it. 

also make 'how to' videos of thing that the student that missed can go look up and I wouldn't have to recreate a lesson.

If I could start over as a first year teacher… I would ask so many more questions, and learn to delegate sooner!

New teachers are way better prepared than we were when we came out almost 4 decades ago.  Much of we did when we came out we supposed to know already or use common sense to figure it out or the result of trial and error, a whole lot of error,  I asked a lot of questions and I would have asked many more of the teachers that were legend in the profession if I didn’t want to be a pest.