Finished with school
I finished up with my first year of teaching last week. I've been teaching Chemistry and Integrated Science at South San Francisco High School since November. I'm reasonably satisfied with how my first year of teaching went. I could have done a lot of things a lot better, but I give myself some credit that the first year is always rough.
Resolutions for when I teach next: Establish from the start consistent standards for behavior, study habits, and homework - and give students more of a schedule of what is coming up. I need to get better organized about keeping track of things about students, like consequences of bad behavior and such.
As a nice cap to my year at SSFHS, two of my students invited me to the Teacher Appreciation Night at their church last Friday (Iglesia ni Christo - a big Philippine church). I also met a Stanford classmate of mine there, Sara S., who had been invited by a student of hers from a nearby school. We and the other ten teachers there got dinner, and as we ate various kids performed - singing songs or reading poems. We stood up with the student who invited us, who said why they thought we were a good teacher, and the church gave each of us a big bag of goodies: paper, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and other office supplies. It was very sweet, and it was intriguing to see how enthusiastic a bunch of these kids were about their church.
Resolutions for when I teach next: Establish from the start consistent standards for behavior, study habits, and homework - and give students more of a schedule of what is coming up. I need to get better organized about keeping track of things about students, like consequences of bad behavior and such.
As a nice cap to my year at SSFHS, two of my students invited me to the Teacher Appreciation Night at their church last Friday (Iglesia ni Christo - a big Philippine church). I also met a Stanford classmate of mine there, Sara S., who had been invited by a student of hers from a nearby school. We and the other ten teachers there got dinner, and as we ate various kids performed - singing songs or reading poems. We stood up with the student who invited us, who said why they thought we were a good teacher, and the church gave each of us a big bag of goodies: paper, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and other office supplies. It was very sweet, and it was intriguing to see how enthusiastic a bunch of these kids were about their church.