It's Day 4 and several teachers in my department have no voice. Why? They've been teaching hard from the jump. They are excited to get started and passionate about their students. Good on them. I feel much the same way, but I'm trying to save a little gas for the last bit of week we have left. Overall things are going well for this teacher in the school and classroom.
I feel like a teacher. Things are clicking. Kids are participating. In groups they are actually talking about the lesson and it feels good. How am I conserving a little more energy? Trusting my kids a bit more to teach themselves but also being much stricter in the beginning than I have been the past few years. Before this year I thought that "days in groups are days wasted," but thus far, that hasn't been the case. I started driving the learning more at the end of the year and that was effective, but it also involved strong discipline and management. Without support from my campus I took more into my hands like the veteran teachers around me advised me to do. It paid off then and it's paying double now.
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I feel like a teacher. Things are clicking. Kids are participating. In groups they are actually talking about the lesson and it feels good. How am I conserving a little more energy? Trusting my kids a bit more to teach themselves but also being much stricter in the beginning than I have been the past few years. Before this year I thought that "days in groups are days wasted," but thus far, that hasn't been the case. I started driving the learning more at the end of the year and that was effective, but it also involved strong discipline and management. Without support from my campus I took more into my hands like the veteran teachers around me advised me to do. It paid off then and it's paying double now.
Related articles:
Feeling like a Teacher in DISD
Changing my teaching in DISD Classrooms
When Dallas ISD Students get it
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