The Stages of Teaching

We were given this graph of the stages of a first year teacher sometime in October for a TFA session on having "balance" in your life.  HAH.  That's how most of us responded to that, if we could manage to untuck our heads from the fetal position.  One of my friends posted this on Facebook and got a pretty funny line of responses, mostly questioning whether rejuvenation would ever ACTUALLY happen.

I re-did the graph to more accurately show the stages of a first year teacher.  Please note the area where the plot line drops off the graph into no man's land (approximately September-November).