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Celebrating 35 years: Reflections of a happy teacher

Sanjo Jeffrey has been a teacher for 35 years and this year marks her 20th teaching in the UK. Having supported some of the most vulnerable students, she writes here about why her spark for teaching is still there
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This month (September) marks the 35th year of my career as a teacher – 20 of which I have spent in London. This is a career established on a deep love of reading and a strong desire to inform and effect change in the lives of others.

There were always books in my environment and for me reading was second nature – a way of life. This is fundamental to who I am as a person and a teacher. I suppose the love of reading and learning led, consciously or not, to my becoming a teacher of English.

Teachers have always had an impact on me and I have tried to model aspects of my own teaching philosophy and practice on those teachers I had as a student – two secondary school teachers of English, a secondary school maths teacher, and a primary school deputy headteacher, all of whom hold very special places in my heart.

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