Hello all!
This will be another short post but hopefully I will be able to share more about my first week teaching tomorrow. Overall, it has been a pretty good week. I am definitely taking it one day at a time right now and trying not to think too much about anything beyond that.
The students (for the most part) have been great. It is definitely tough getting them back into the "school mode" in which their attention span is a little more than just 2-3 minutes....I have already noticed that it will be quite a difference every day going from teaching 6th graders to 5th and then 4th graders (and then back to 6th graders). There is such a difference in the students in those three years - it will be a challenge but a fun one I think.
One of the highlights of the week has to be sharing my powerpoint of pictures to the different grade levels and seeing their reactions to how I looked in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade...The sixth graders I'm sure enjoyed the opportunity to see that I was once in their seat.
Alright, I'm off to finish up a few things here and there in the classroom and then back to the house - the days are both quick and Long...they seem to be long usually the last hour or so of school and when I think about how much I have to do, but they speed up and when I lay down in bed at night I have been constantly thinking, "What the heck did I do all day today?" One more day of school this week - then a diocesan Religion teacher's in-service on Friday.
I hope to update tomorrow - thanks for checking in!
PEace
Glad that you survived your first week. Now you will have "work" to do until next July! Don't spend all of your free time doing school work. Sure, it needs to get done, but you need to stay sane as well! Don't take it personally when students misbehave. There may be some that are just, I'll say this nicely, "unique situations". When a lesson bombs, and it will, have some backup plans in mind like minute mysteries or thinking games. Always a life saver, plus the kids will think you're a genius! Quiz them on the spelling of your last name too and give out "extra credit" to anyone who spells it right. There won't be many!
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