sucky teaching day
Fridays are supposed to be happy days. Today is not a happy day. My two tough classes were the worst ever (well, except for the first day, during which there was a fight). I feel really demoralized. I know these kids CAN behave, they just won't for me, which means my classroom management sucks, which isn't really a surprise I guess. I don't do mean very well. I'm a great teacher (I think, at least I do ok) when the students are well behaved from the get go. I just don't know how to handle poorly behaving students. It was so bad the teacher next door came over during the last five minutes of my period from hell (shes another TFA person, but her management is perfect, damn her) and say her students couldn't do their work because my students were too loud. How humiliating!
Sigh. Two more periods to go. These ones I can handle, I think. I keep trying to find a system that works for my 3rd and 4/5 periods, and nothing thus far is doing the trick, probably becuase I just fail as a disciplinarian/reward giver. I kinda want to cry, but I'm too tired. Plus, I have class in five minutes.
I need to figure out what the heck I'm doing in the classroom, both planning level and management level, because I'm really really failing hard core.
I also have class tomorrow. Wheee! Finding a career that has the potential to be rewarding: good idea. Getting an education: good idea. Working on my Masters while simultaneously to not fail at being a teacher in a school that offers me no real assisstance: bad idea .
Sigh. Two more periods to go. These ones I can handle, I think. I keep trying to find a system that works for my 3rd and 4/5 periods, and nothing thus far is doing the trick, probably becuase I just fail as a disciplinarian/reward giver. I kinda want to cry, but I'm too tired. Plus, I have class in five minutes.
I need to figure out what the heck I'm doing in the classroom, both planning level and management level, because I'm really really failing hard core.
I also have class tomorrow. Wheee! Finding a career that has the potential to be rewarding: good idea. Getting an education: good idea. Working on my Masters while simultaneously to not fail at being a teacher in a school that offers me no real assisstance: bad idea .