One thing I really love about my career is that you really never "get it" perfectly. For some of the perfectionist tendencies I have that may sound really horrible and scary but instead it comforts me to no end to know up front, in the early stages of my career, that its just how it will ALWAYS be. I can improve but I will never perfectly teach every student in the way I wish to.
That said, I am now three weeks into the semester. For my probability and statistics classes, I have taught two full units. Last semester I remember being SO UNSURE of how students would do with material because it was something I had never taught. Now teaching it "round 2," I feel SO much more successful in how I taught the material. It is amazing how just one semester of mistakes can be corrected. Knowing where students would struggle really helped explain the more challenging concepts in a better way to where they would understand. Not to say everyone made a 100 on their tests but I could tell they made much deeper connections this time and my conversations about the content with them were much deeper.
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