‘Done is better than perfect’: advice for beginner teachers

Margaret Ryan

By Margaret Ryan
Published July 13, 2021

As an early career teacher, I soon realised being a perfectionist was setting myself up for a fall.

The University of Notre Dame’s Professor Caroline Mansfield says it’s important for early career teachers to learn not to take things personally, know that everyone has bad days and things don’t all go to plan.

I had created a term-long music program for a one-class country school. After researching and plunging my own funds into ...

This story appeared in the June 2021 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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