If

Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling

If you can love 30 children all year and still have room for 30 new children the next year
If you can understand and learn new things everyday while teaching those and different things
If you can create a safe environment for a variety of kids while everywhere else is chaos
If you can write in exact detail what you would do during work tomorrow if you were going to be here because you're not going to be here
And change your plan on the fly

If you can show your disappointment and let them know you'll do better and they need to do better, too
If you can ignore misbehavior and teach others to pay attention to the good
If you can contact parents about the worst day and still make them feel like their child is loved
And let the child know they are loved at home and at school

If you can teach the same thing and still think about how you can do better
And the next day, the next lesson, think the same thing
If you can spend all day with children who aren't your own any still go home and think you'd love some of your own -- or go home and spend time with your own and have enough love and patience for them
If you can do all this and all else expected of you

Then you can be a teacher