This is by far the hardest part of teaching. In order to sound like you know what you are talking about you have to be ready. Completely and totally ready. Getting the notebooks organized and getting everything I want in them is very time consuming. I’m pretty much there though. I’ve got the chemistry notebook [...]
The whole point of my starting this blog was to keep a running journal of my first year as a teacher. Everything is so new and I’m learning so much that I really wanted to write it down so I can refer back to it. Unfortunately, I’m working so hard at being a new teacher [...]
Not that I don’t have lots of things to talk about I’m just so busy it’s hard to find time to put my thoughts into words. I’m almost done with my masters classes and once those are done I’ll have more time. The classes I’m teaching are going pretty well. I started the year so [...]
Even though I have a job teaching I am still in the process of getting certified. In order to do that I have to be observed teaching 5 times in a 10 week period. Tomorrow is the first of them. My professor from HPU will be coming to observe me teach a chemistry class. Normally [...]
Let’s start with the classes I’m teaching. Pre-algebra is going just fine. That’s pretty easy, follow the book and progress at a steady pace. Half way through the chapter we have a quiz, at the end of the chapter we have a test. Pretty simple and easy to plan. Chemistry is proving to be a [...]
I know I haven’t posted in a while but I’ve been crazy busy. It really is amazing how much time teaching takes up. There is the actual time in front of the class but then there’s the hours of preparing before that happens and the hours after analyzing and grading. Teaching is not for wusses, [...]
My classes started again a week ago. That means I’m back to the student and teacher position. That’s always interesting because sometimes it’s hard to shift gears. In the classroom you are the expert on all things where as in my class I not only have to defer to the teacher but to the other [...]
As much as I am enjoying teaching, and as exciting as everything is because it’s all new to me, there are some things that just frustrate me no end. First of all why can’t assignments be turned in on time? I know they have 6 classes and they have homework from most of them but [...]