justagurl24's thoughts

An interesting conversation was had yesterday in the staff room. It's been bugging me on what was said.

A few teachers were talking about getting up in the morning and coming to work. Alot of them said they were tired to get to work and how none of them were excited to come to work. They had nothing to look forward to when they came to work. That kind of makes me sad to think that some people do the same thing everyday without even having a slight sense of enjoyment to look forward to in the day.

And I piped in to say, "Does anyone really hate their work?" Most of them said yeah. This was kind of a shocker to me. I mean I've never truly hated what I've worked at. Even my jobs I had in university, I still enjoyed going to work. May be I'm a special one or something. So I added to the conversation, "I mean I don't like getting up in the morning and I would rather sleep. But the thing that gets me excited to come to work are the kids. They are what I look forward to when I come to school." And they all kind of laughed at me, thinking.. oh you're new, that's what most newbies say. I mean shouldn't that be for all teachers? But still, what's the point of doing what you do if you don't have anything to keep yourself excited year after year besides a paycheque.

That's my rant. My apologies for not updating often enough. I'll try to post more if I have the time. :)

Posted by rom559 at 08:23 AM | Permalink

So, it's already week 2 of month two. I am so amazed on how fast this whole thing is going. I have been very fortunate to be in this school. The students have been nothing but great. I haven't had any attitudes from kids yet, which goes to show you on how well the adminstration runs this school. I've been so busy though. Every night I have been planning for the next day's stuff. I knew I should have gotten ahead in the summer.. shame on me..

It hasn't been all ups.. there are some downs.. I don't think I'm exploring enough instructional strategies. This may be due to the fact that I'm only a day ahead of the kids. I'm not giving it my all to the profession. I'm basically spoon-feeding information.. which really dissapoints me. Another down.. my classroom atmosphere is too relaxed.. I'm not putting my foot down enough.. even a kid commented today.. "you're losing control.. they're not listening..".. I think she's right. I'm not sure how I can fix this one.. I'm an easy going person to begin with.. so getting a firm hand will be a challenge. I had this same problem in internship.. so we'll see how I will get a hand on it.

Posted by rom559 at 07:03 PM | Permalink

Okay, here it goes.

Tomorrow is the first staff meeting of the year. I've got most of my stuff settled into my classroom. I'm getting butterflies more and more as it gets nearer to the first day of school. Our division is late on starting school as compared to other divisions, which is an advantage for me to get some more prepping done.

I'm going to try to implement procedure and structure this time around. I hope it works in my favour. I feel Harry Wong is training monkeys rather than focusing on the learning. I guess there are ups and downs about having procedures.

I'm getting excited as I look through my class lists. Will they like me? Will they judge me? Of course they will. As long as I leave a good first impression, I think that's all I should worry about.

Let's hope for the positive that I have a great first day!

Posted by rom559 at 11:12 AM | Permalink