for those of you who thought teaching was glorified babysitting (as i thought back in the day), you are sadly mistaken. I HAVE NEVER WORKED SO HARD IN MY LIFE. the rigor and advancement that has happened in education over the last 10 years is extraordinary...especially in a hyper-demanding school district like mine (they'd like to have claim over your first child)...the accountability standards are HUGE (which is a good thing), but geeze, i'm overwhelmed. sure, you might be teaching a lower grade (piece of cake right?) but i cannot even begin to describe the amount of time, blood, sweat, and tears that goes into this job. i'm at the school by 7 and have just finished working on things for tomorrow and as you can see it's almost midnight. all day long, i am in charge of managing 19 precocious, wily, exploratory second graders and i just pray we can make it thought the year without anyone going missing (quite a darn feat, i promise you.) i'm so sorry to vent, but my feet have blisters all over them and my brain is absolutely fried from having to teach in spanish all day. i share these lamentations with you only because i think teachers deserve a whole lot more respect and appreciation, more so than i ever gave my mother or my own teachers.
i may not have perfect spanish and i'm certainly lacking in teaching content mastery, but my heart belongs to kids and at the end of the day, if a child has felt loved and encouraged that is the best that i can do.
for all you teachers out there, hope you're having a great first week of school! i'll also include a few pics from last week working in the classroom...
our "literacy" area
only shot with me in it, sorry you caught the behind. and oh yeah, fiji, you're welcome for the shameless plug.
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