The English Teacher

Today was the first day of class and I managed to survive it.  To be fair, though, it wasn’t that difficult.  I thought it would be extremely stressful having three classes in a row, but having the one hour for lunch in between really helped out.  My kids aren’t as bad as I feared.  Although I can see that my greatest challenge will be getting my kids to turn in their homework and caring about their grades and classes, I hope that their youth and naivete (I have mostly ninth graders) will be to my advantage.  Unfortunately, I can see that my tenth graders are going to be a handful.  First of all, there are a lot of them, and that’s going to be somewhat problematic, management-wise.  Luckily, I have another teacher in there with me so she can help me out a bit.  Having another teacher around is an unusual situation for me.  Although I’m the one who will do most of the lesson planning, she’ll be helping me teach and grade.  I’d like to have more of her input on the grading, but it’s hard to get together to collaborate because of our schedules.  Hopefully, we can work something out soon. 

It was a good and tiring day.