What's one thing that I wish I knew when I started teaching...

This is from the Answer page at Washington Post...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/teachers/teachers-one-thing-wed-wish-we.html

Teaser:

Here are some of the answers that teachers gave to this question: “What was one thing you wished you’d known when you started teaching?”

The query was posed on the “Whole Child Blog” of ASCD, an educational leadership organization with more than 170,000 educator members in 136 countries.

Some of the responses are below, and you can see more here. The answers -- which are republished below as they appeared on the website -- hit on what ASCD believes are crucial elements in effective teaching and learning.