Day 1: COMPLETE

I feel like I ran a marathon. Or, at least what I imagine I would feel like I would feel post running a marathon. We ended our day with a PLT (a.k.a PLC) meeting and the entire time I felt like my brain was in a fog. Thankfully, I am not alone.

I did finish my first full day of teaching, which I am so excited about. I definitely have an interesting mix of students and no doubt there will be anonymous stories about them. For the most part, they seem like such awesome kids. I teach mostly Freshmen, so, many of them were kind of "deer in the headlights" today because they were getting used to getting to their classes on their own and with the halls more crowded.

Already, I have learned a lot. Throughout the day I improved and I just hope to continue getting better. There are definitely things that I worry about though; there are issues that have already presented themselves. Things I struggle with thus far, in regards to students:

• multiple levels of learning in one room
• classes with high levels of IEPs
• classroom management with classes of predominantly 14/15 yr old males
• noise levels in a class with high ceilings and an echo

I know these are things many teachers struggle with. Still...definitely things to work on. Sorry, I feel like I have been a major downer during this post. There are some really exciting things, and I can't wait to get to the know the kids more. At this point, I think the exhaustion is just overwhelming. I have had multiple jobs in my life, but I have never had a job that requires both physical and mental abilities all of the time for 8 hours straight. Not including the time after school when I stay until 8pm planning and trying to get things in order. Ugh, okay. Enough whining for now. I will try to sound way more upbeat on my next post.

As always, thanks for reading.