Time for Round 2
Tomorrow is my second first day of school as a teacher. At the beginning of summer, I dreaded this day, as last year was hard. But after an amazingly relaxing summer (I'll have to put up pictures of my China trip eventually!), I'm much more ready to take on this new year.
I was reading last year's post from right before the first day of school, and it's odd how a lot of it could have been written this year. I'm still probably going to be up late tonight, getting last minute preparations ready. And once again, I'm both excited and nervous for the upcoming year. And yet, in many ways, this year will be quite a bit different this year. We'll be in a new building (which has caused a ton of hassle and work, but also means I get a much bigger classroom, which will be nice.) And almost half the staff is new, including my fellow fifth grade teacher. This is actually a good thing, because while I'll really miss some of the teachers who are gone, I can already tell that this will be a fresh start in a good way. Also, I'll be departmentalized (teaching language arts and social studies instead of everything), and will have class sizes about twice as large as the ones I had last year. I still feel like I have no clue what I'm doing, in both classroom management and language arts and social studies (I feel like math was the only subject I started to get a grasp on last year), but at least I have a better idea of what I'm getting into, which helps a lot.
And I could go on, but I doubt anyone cares about the details of this year, and I probably should go back to planning instead of writing on LJ. So I'll leave it there for now, and hopefully I'll be posting more than once every couple of months this year!
I was reading last year's post from right before the first day of school, and it's odd how a lot of it could have been written this year. I'm still probably going to be up late tonight, getting last minute preparations ready. And once again, I'm both excited and nervous for the upcoming year. And yet, in many ways, this year will be quite a bit different this year. We'll be in a new building (which has caused a ton of hassle and work, but also means I get a much bigger classroom, which will be nice.) And almost half the staff is new, including my fellow fifth grade teacher. This is actually a good thing, because while I'll really miss some of the teachers who are gone, I can already tell that this will be a fresh start in a good way. Also, I'll be departmentalized (teaching language arts and social studies instead of everything), and will have class sizes about twice as large as the ones I had last year. I still feel like I have no clue what I'm doing, in both classroom management and language arts and social studies (I feel like math was the only subject I started to get a grasp on last year), but at least I have a better idea of what I'm getting into, which helps a lot.
And I could go on, but I doubt anyone cares about the details of this year, and I probably should go back to planning instead of writing on LJ. So I'll leave it there for now, and hopefully I'll be posting more than once every couple of months this year!