My most excellent announcement
I just realized that I haven't let anyone on here know my most excellent news: I found a job!!
I am teaching at the South Allegheny Jr/Sr High school, with 4 middle school classes and 3 high school classes. So far I've been haivng fun and enjoy interacting with the kids, who have been mostly good, and when they haven't been, I've been impressed with my ability to be as strict as I know I need to be. For the first while, at least, I do want to stick 100% to my rules and make sure the kids know that they are in MY classroom, and are to follow MY rules. Once I think they know that, I do plan on being more lenient, but I just want to avoid the downward slide I experienced with one of my classes last year, which I attribute to not starting out as firm as I think I should have.
I am a travelling teacher, as so many starting language teachers must be, but hopefully I can get my own classroom next year. If not, I can always work hard here, get excellent references, and search for somewhere I will actually have my own space.
I'm excited to get my first paycheck from a job I couldn't have gotten right out of high school, and it's quite nice to be one step up on the pay scale because of my masters degree. Yeah!
I am teaching at the South Allegheny Jr/Sr High school, with 4 middle school classes and 3 high school classes. So far I've been haivng fun and enjoy interacting with the kids, who have been mostly good, and when they haven't been, I've been impressed with my ability to be as strict as I know I need to be. For the first while, at least, I do want to stick 100% to my rules and make sure the kids know that they are in MY classroom, and are to follow MY rules. Once I think they know that, I do plan on being more lenient, but I just want to avoid the downward slide I experienced with one of my classes last year, which I attribute to not starting out as firm as I think I should have.
I am a travelling teacher, as so many starting language teachers must be, but hopefully I can get my own classroom next year. If not, I can always work hard here, get excellent references, and search for somewhere I will actually have my own space.
I'm excited to get my first paycheck from a job I couldn't have gotten right out of high school, and it's quite nice to be one step up on the pay scale because of my masters degree. Yeah!