This was a busy week with SO much going on. I felt like the stress of a real teacher life hit me pretty hard. I guess before now I’ve been teaching half the day, planning some in the middle, and having time to grade papers during the school day. Since I was teaching all day this week, I realized how big of a difference it makes when you don’t have little blocks of time during the day to plan for the rest of the day or grade homework and tests. I found myself staying until 7:00 almost every day last week just to get ready for the next day. Then I’d go home and do lesson plans for the next week until it was time for bed. I think I need to figure out a way to get things done faster, because although I love teaching and I adore my kids, I need a life apart from it too. It worked out okay this week since it was UNC’s Spring Break so most people were gone which took away all distractions, but it would be hard to keep that life up this week when all of my friends are back. I guess what I’m saying is that I need to find a balance between school work and having some sort of life outside of it. I just want to do everything for my kids and make my lessons really good, and it’s taking up a lot of time!!!
Feb. 8-12
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Definitely good bye to the days of getting a lot of paperwork done during the day! I bring most of it home with me now!
How have things been going lately? Please update us on your experiences in the classroom.
This was the post for March 8-12, not Feb! My mistake on the wrong date, oops. You can see that i submitted it on March 14th if you look at the bottom of it. I really have been keeping this thing updated, promise!
I believe you…Now keep teaching!