The Sled Ride of Week One!!

Week #1.

When you first think of week one (in class), you might think easy syllabus week. Well in the "teacher world" you think craziness. Paper coming out of the copier like confetti on New Years Eve in Times Square. Kids panicking on where they need to be in 30 seconds when the bell rings. Wondering in the land of "whats your name again?". My very first class being a grand total of 9 minutes....yeah, that's right, 9 whole minutes.

My first week started out with a teacher in service day which was very beneficial for getting the classroom set up and things together.

Tuesday, we had a snow day (best first day ever).

Wednesday we had a two hour delay and state testing was finishing up along with the finals for period one of last semester. When period 2 rolled around 90 minutes later, it was the start of the third marking period.
This was also the day I had a 9 minute 3rd period so students could finish their finals in the other classes. Needless to say it was a very confusing time.

Thursday and Friday went super well :)


This became very obvious to me while taking on my first two classes and trying to get my mind back into the high school setting. The good news, I believe I made leaps and bounds in the three days that I got to teach. I went from, where do I do attendance, to whoo baby I had that done a long time ago!

My classes are doing well over all, some of the students may hate my guts right now with how I came on to them in one of my classes, but they brought it on themselves. I will have to keep on them and pushing them so they don't stop short of their potential.

Areas of improvement

Worry less about the things that don't matter or are out of my control.

"Take care of the little things and let the big things take care of themselves".

Get to know my students more, take time to talk with them.