Being a DoS means also recruiting new teachers, and then training them to meet up the standards of our school - and this inspires me to share 5 things someone should've told me when I started teaching years ago. Someone should have - but I had no DoS, and even though teaching runs in my blood, there are some things I had to discover by myself:

My ultimate goal in teaching is, as I've probably mentioned it already, having fun - you can't seriously expect me to be prim and proper at all times, now, can you? It's rather difficult to keep a straight face when your students make you cry from laughter, and that's something that happens to me only too often (bless my students!). With April Fools' Day writing about humour is inevitable - especially that I don't really like pranks and yet bringing humour to the classroom is surely one of my favourite aspects of teaching.

If I got a penny each time I hear I'll understand English culture when I go there for holidays I'd be the richest teacher ever. If I got a penny each time I bite my tongue and do not engage in a lengthy discussion every time I hear this phrase, I'd be surprisingly wealthy as well. Because it doesn't work this way, now, does it?