Last night I could not sleep, because I had so much on my mind. I love teaching, but all of the changes to the curriculum have left the first couple of weeks unsettling for me. I know many people flourish in an unstructured environment, but I just don't. I feel in teaching that everything has to be planned. Otherwise, the classroom is chaos. I am always flexible with my students and I realize that sometimes situations change quickly, but this has been more than that. I am not asking for rigidity, just an organized plan. Thus, I was completely frazzled and just didn't think I could teach today.
I did make it through first period, however. They are a great class to start the day with. That really helped. I also brainstormed with two other teachers to see what we could do to bring more structure to our day. After that I was able to breathe a little, and the day went by as I had planned. I felt that I had a better handle on my teaching objectives. I also spent some time at recess with Cameron and that really helped.
The rest of the day went well even though I was running on only three hours of sleep. Cameron and I went to Cal's tennis match where we watched him destroy his opponent 6-0 and 6-1. Last year he had had an epic three hour match with the same player from Whitko. Cal was markedly better than him this year. I thought that was awesome to see.
Meg had a soccer game as well tonight. Mom and Dad went to that one. They lost 6-1, but Meg felt pretty good about it. Another player scored the goal and Meg said that was fun to see. She had to take a turn as goalie and felt that one of the goals she let in she should have stopped. It has been six months since she played goalie, so I know she was rusty, but overall she had fun.
I was definitely wiped out by 9:15 tonight. I still had laundry and such to get in the washer. It was nice to make it through the day. Didn't think I could make it when my alarm went off at 6:15 a.m. this morning.
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