Problem #1: After teaching for 14 years, I found myself as exhausted as a 1st year teacher and burnt out by the end of September.
Problem #2: I had underestimated the quality of my past lessons. I didn't need to rework everything because I had created some great lessons that really only needed some tweaking.
Problems #3: The biggest problem that I had was that I underestimated my students. I think sometimes we tend to think our students need more hand holding than they really do.
The assignment that helped make me aware of these problems was a project I created called The Manifesto Project.
