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1st Year of Teaching (2020): The Avengers Edition
2020...need I say more?
Building the mental, emotional, and physical endurance to teach 6 classes a day
Hearing students swearing in the hallway…
Walking into school with other teachers and chaperones on field trip day...
Stepping outside the classroom for 1 minute and coming back to chaos...
When students try to steer your lesson off track and you resist...
Heading to Happy Hour after a long week…or day…
When students act out while you are being observed by Admin..
When people outside of education try to tell you how to do your job…
When students don’t think you understand their lingo…
Telling students not to do something be like…
Keeping a student after class for being disrespectful...
Calling on distracted students to answer a question…
Celebrating student breakthroughs...
When students try to get away with wearing hoodies in class...
Trying to facilitate students using technology…
Trying to balance curriculum standards, classroom management, student interests, parent communication, extracurriculars, engaging resources, technology, differentiation, and overcrowded classrooms without enough resources...
Student teaching be like…
When you turn to the board and students start doing TikTok dances…
Trying to negotiate funds for classroom materials…
Greeting students at the door…
When students try to explain why they didn't finish their project and claim "they didn't have time in class to do it"
Encouraging other teachers at staff meetings and PLCs...
When COVID:19 hits, and EVERYTHING has to move online. You fake it to make it when your sanity is like...
Heading into your second year of teaching...
And finally...reminding students everyday…
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