life with children
children are so crazy yet so fragile.
my greatest concern is tempering my sterness with just the right amount of heart-softness. also, the kids' hormones seem to be interfering with their brain waves sometimes. i'm literally shocked at times by the apparent obscurity of the perfectly obvious. my supervisor always calls middle and high school students "little kids in big bodies" and i know now what she means.
the other pitfall i've encountered is the failure-crash, success-pressure cycle. whenever i say the wrong thing or feel i've done the wrong thing i feel terrible afterward. i keep remembering how much what my teachers said had an impact for me, for better or for worse. then when things go better than expected i feel a tremendous pressure to somehow duplicate things i don't fully understand. sometimes teaching middle school makes me feel like a middle-schooler!
although i love teaching so much (i really can't imagine a better job) i often have the sensation of going through the wash. plan, teach, plan, sleep, plan, teach, plan, sleep, sort, wash, dry, sort, wash, dry. teaching every other day would be ideal!
anyway, back to work!
my greatest concern is tempering my sterness with just the right amount of heart-softness. also, the kids' hormones seem to be interfering with their brain waves sometimes. i'm literally shocked at times by the apparent obscurity of the perfectly obvious. my supervisor always calls middle and high school students "little kids in big bodies" and i know now what she means.
the other pitfall i've encountered is the failure-crash, success-pressure cycle. whenever i say the wrong thing or feel i've done the wrong thing i feel terrible afterward. i keep remembering how much what my teachers said had an impact for me, for better or for worse. then when things go better than expected i feel a tremendous pressure to somehow duplicate things i don't fully understand. sometimes teaching middle school makes me feel like a middle-schooler!
although i love teaching so much (i really can't imagine a better job) i often have the sensation of going through the wash. plan, teach, plan, sleep, plan, teach, plan, sleep, sort, wash, dry, sort, wash, dry. teaching every other day would be ideal!
anyway, back to work!