ABSTRACT
The author have taken that first year to mean the first year of teaching on the clock rather than simply the first year in which you taught something. For most of us there will be a number of such firsts: the first time we ran a classroom as a TA for one of our professors during graduate school, the first full course we were put in charge of as lecturer in that same setting, the first year teaching as part of a post-doctoral fellowship in another department, the first year teaching as an adjunct on/in the market, and the first year in which you find ourself in what you consider to be a permanent appointment. After working within an almost exclusively academic environment, our first long-term teaching job may be at a school dominated by its performance program or populated primarily by music education students, with few, if any, sharing the interest in history that you had as an undergraduate.
