Waski_the_Squirrel
Resident of the least visited state in the nation.
I've finished my first day of school today. I'm very hoarse (I don't talk this much during the summer).
We're getting some larger classes in the high school again. I have 37 in Biology! (Still not up to what it was when I started, but looking up.) My Chemistry and Physics are smaller, but they're also pulling from smaller classes. (28 seniors and 30 juniors) I only have 14 little 8th graders in Algebra 1, but that is a small class (in the 20s somewhere, but I don't know for sure).
I'm thrilled that my creepy/talkative colleague is gone. I had to leave early for a dentist appointment, so I returned to work later in my room. My creepy/talkative colleague wasn't there to babble and prevent me working. His replacement is so much more professional. He has discipline in his classroom! The woman next door to him thinks he's wonderful. Only a curtain divides the two rooms, so she really bore the brunt of the lousy discipline in the creepy/talkative man's room. And, thanks to some issues with the schedule, pre-calculus had to be split into 2 sections this year. He took one, she still has the other. He will actually do a good job. The creepy/talkative man would not. (I know the new math teacher from classes I took, so I actually do have some idea about him.)
Of course, I've already been reminded that I like teaching because of the students. Once a teacher learns to manage a classroom, students really aren't a big challenge overall (some individuals are). The adults in the school are the real difficulty. I'm already annoyed with a few colleagues i the elementary school.
We're getting some larger classes in the high school again. I have 37 in Biology! (Still not up to what it was when I started, but looking up.) My Chemistry and Physics are smaller, but they're also pulling from smaller classes. (28 seniors and 30 juniors) I only have 14 little 8th graders in Algebra 1, but that is a small class (in the 20s somewhere, but I don't know for sure).
I'm thrilled that my creepy/talkative colleague is gone. I had to leave early for a dentist appointment, so I returned to work later in my room. My creepy/talkative colleague wasn't there to babble and prevent me working. His replacement is so much more professional. He has discipline in his classroom! The woman next door to him thinks he's wonderful. Only a curtain divides the two rooms, so she really bore the brunt of the lousy discipline in the creepy/talkative man's room. And, thanks to some issues with the schedule, pre-calculus had to be split into 2 sections this year. He took one, she still has the other. He will actually do a good job. The creepy/talkative man would not. (I know the new math teacher from classes I took, so I actually do have some idea about him.)
Of course, I've already been reminded that I like teaching because of the students. Once a teacher learns to manage a classroom, students really aren't a big challenge overall (some individuals are). The adults in the school are the real difficulty. I'm already annoyed with a few colleagues i the elementary school.
