So I just finished my first OFFICIAL week as a teacher and I must say I enjoyed it even more than I thought I would have. Let me go day by day
MONDAY : No school! What a way to start off the term huh? lol lol You know we Trinis LOVE us a holiday!!! But it was Independence FYI
TUESDAY: First day. Excited. Looking good. lol..I know..I vain. So what? lol The principal introduces me to the entire school at assembly - thankfully I am not the only newbie - there is another teacher (English). The children all stare at us, some of the Upper 6's whistlin lol. I didn't any scheduled classes till after lunch I had a Form 2 and a Form 3 Integrated Science. Bright eyes, big smiles all willing to learn. They were so excited to hear about everything. Made me want to teach even more. All in all a fantastic day. Except for one fact. Heels. When you teaching in a school that requires you to walk up and down stairs? Eh eh...heels is NOT the way to go. I embrace the flat slipper now. lol lol lol Ohhhh almost forgot I have a form class! A form 1 full of such babies lol lol some of them barely look old enough to be in secondary school. lol lol
WEDNESDAY: Had my Form 4 Class for the first time! HUGE class! 31 students! This is my introductory speech: "Goodmorning everyone - my name is Miss So an So, I live at So and So. That is about all you need to know about me. I hope I impress you as much as you impress me. I don't know any of you all so I don't knw who is the 'bright child', or who who is the 'dounce child' or who is the 'miserable child'. So you all get to start off fresh. Open your books, our first topic is...." What do you think? lol They looked at me as if I was traumatizing them. lol "Misssss work on the first day of school? Wheyyyyy" lol I get back to the staff room - another teacher approaches me.. "So miss you taught before? Because my Form 6's were wondering nah,..they said they don't want a teacher to leave class early and all that" I looked at her. eh? lol What does she think I plan to go and do in the classroom? Lime? Steups..according to "bella" Ah Wah! lol lol lol SO after I taught them 2 periods after she tells me on
THURSDAY: "miss, my class was very impressed with you". I say "really? go figure." And left it at that. The audacity...so Thursday the school had this prayer service (School is run by a denominational board-like the convents) - so I didn't have class until after. The form 6 class takes lots of energy because they have alot of work to cover. Plus I don't want to make the class a monotony of note taking -so I have to put in extra time on my lesson plans making sure there is some type of interactivity.
FRIDAY: TGIF! Yeah! After a week, I'm glad for the weekend. But honestly I enjoyed my week of teaching and I look forward to the rest of the term. I can see it getting very exhausting. Lesson plans, homework..lab books....but I can't see the joy of it going away. In retrospect I think about how happy I felt teaching and realized that I haven't felt that kinda joy and satisfaction in a while. It leads me to rationalize that - when you have found your place in the world it is an amazing thing. The feeling is indescribable. Its like... WOW lol
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Wow!!! I felt like that way back in 2001 when I just began to teach...It is fun and every new brings a new challenge cause you get new students...it will get tough...but knowing that you are reaching these children and changing their lives is what matters the most to me!
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