AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I start my CAREER in just a few days! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I am so, so, so, so, so, soooooo nervous! and Excited. But mostly freaking out!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like I'm cramming before a huge test. Wading through site after site of how-to guides to teaching, sifting through online lesson plans, grappling with the curriculum required by the nation, the state, and the system. I am trying, struggling, to incorporate what feels like a thousand different strands, and somehow form a cohesive unit plan, and then ALSO try to figure out a way to teach it that is engaging, exciting, alive, and effective.
I just may be grasping at something well beyond my reach.
Oh heavens. I have this image of me floundering before a sea of skeptical, disinterested, unenthusiastic or openly hostile eighth graders. Of every lesson bombing. Tanking. Of standing in front of them and not knowing what the fuck to do with them.
I really need this job...
And they really need an English teacher capapble of guiding them to success!
Christ almighty.
What have I gotten myself into?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I start my CAREER in just a few days! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I am so, so, so, so, so, soooooo nervous! and Excited. But mostly freaking out!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like I'm cramming before a huge test. Wading through site after site of how-to guides to teaching, sifting through online lesson plans, grappling with the curriculum required by the nation, the state, and the system. I am trying, struggling, to incorporate what feels like a thousand different strands, and somehow form a cohesive unit plan, and then ALSO try to figure out a way to teach it that is engaging, exciting, alive, and effective.
I just may be grasping at something well beyond my reach.
Oh heavens. I have this image of me floundering before a sea of skeptical, disinterested, unenthusiastic or openly hostile eighth graders. Of every lesson bombing. Tanking. Of standing in front of them and not knowing what the fuck to do with them.
I really need this job...
And they really need an English teacher capapble of guiding them to success!
Christ almighty.
What have I gotten myself into?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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day 1 is a great time for introducing rules for the room. did we talk about that idea that i think i stole from papi about having the kids develop their own rules as a collaboration? i did it with my international kids by introducing preambles and american history, but you can make it work for ela somehow. plus its a good time for talking about cell phones, bullying, attendance, respect, blah blah blah. just be real!
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