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One approach might be to make the rubric form an answer as a synthesis of the three pillars of sustainability: environment, social, and economic. Ie, what responsibilities cover 1. all three factors in the most balanced way for the 2. optimum benefit of present and future generations.

For the two weeks before and the two months following your first day teaching, set aside social commitments and obligations to concentrate on establishing a well-being pattern for yourself.Protect your sleep time and add an extra hour.Make forms to make your work more efficient. Examples: marking rubrics, forms to record attendance, forms to record calls home (student, date, time, reason, message or spoke to a person, who, plan or outcome), and marking forms.Plan out everything a week in advance. Make copies plus extras and overheads the week before.I put students’ names on handouts before class. Leftover handouts told me who was absent quickly and also told me who had not done the work later. Those handouts with names became evidence to parents of work not done. They also were easy to put together for students who were off school for extended periods. Doing this saved me so much time later.Keep a file folder per class with handouts not completed by students. When they get poor marks, those incomplete handouts becomes visual evidence to students wondering why their marks are low.Pay close attention to the pecking order of the office staff and don’t annoy any of them. They can punish you beyond what you can imagine right now, and they gossip. They gossip every day.Learn the custodians’ names. You will need them later. Talk to them.Don’t shout at them. I admit I have done this, not because I was angry at them, but because the negative way they treated each other was escalating.Don’t throw things at them.Observe which teachers seem to have it all worked out. Use older teachers for advice.Dress professionally without skin showing, cleavage, or tight clothing. Students want their teachers to look like teachers.Plan meetings and other interactions after school and never at lunch. Lunchtime is often busy and you will need that time to have a quiet break.Visually check all your students for bruising or cutting every day as you walk around to be able to recognize patterns in the more withdrawn students. You are a first responder for abuse.Protect your private life. Never tell your students that you ever did drugs in your youth. It will be all over the school in three minutes and you will be asked to explain this to the principal who can punish you in ways you cannot yet imagine.Prevent problems. Check the classroom before each class for items that need to be removed (pieces of pens or pencils that are sharp, wires, BBQ starters, or any other items that could a student could use to harm another student.If a student arrives looking edgy in his body language, take him into the hallway before class and deal with it then to prevent an in-class meltdown. Keep food (granola bars) in your pockets and cupboard for these occasions.Think ahead about how you feel about punishment and how you will handle that part of your job. (Hint: punishment doesn’t work, so what else is there?)Find out early what percentage of your class are visual learners and gear much of your teaching towards visuals, preferably with colour.Keep changing the seating plan until you get it right. Tell students the truth about this.Tell students the truth. Except, do not tell them you are a new teacher. Do not do that.If there are lineups at the copier, or if only one works, or if you are not permitted to make the number of copies you need due to budget constraints, copy your handouts elsewhere at your own expense. This is worth it.Do not involve yourself in conflicts among teachers. You will discover that some teachers are bullies.Do not volunteer for anything until your second year of teaching. Maybe your third year.If you mess up with a student in class, apologize to that student in front of the whole class. Make it sincere.Your training will imply that you are the emperor of your classroom and that all the power in that room is yours. This isn’t true. The students have an impressive amount of power and they know it. Make things as cooperative as possible. Switch quickly to another lesson plan if the one you are using isn’t working.Your curriculum documents say that students must demonstrate their learning, sometimes through presentation. In the first two days, tell your classes that students who cannot do class presentations in front of the class can do so after school with two people of their choice (parents, friends). You are not in the torture business. Tell them that. Watch their body language relax at this news. You won’t get more than three.Perhaps other people will add to this list and are invited to do so.

Maybe 80%? It’s hard to quantify these sorts of things. I don’t follow the news much, and though I do spend a fair amount of time on Twitter and have learned some things there, it’s not a major source of insight. Besides, I’ve always believed that focusing on current issues leads one to be parochial-minded. It’s far better to build one’s foundations on eternal principles, on the tried-and-true, and to view current issues through that lens.This is why I so often recommend that people read the Classics in my other answers. The ideas of Plato and Confucius, for example, have stood the test of time and have proven useful in every age, because they deal with human nature, which doesn’t change. So, it’s not terribly difficult to take their, and other Classical authors’, ideas and modify them as needed for modernity.So, my primary political ideas are a rubric formed by a combination of various philosophers and historians, few of whom have any representation in the press, anyway.