This week, I have learned 2 key things about myself as a
teacher:
1.
Wall displays are tricky when you are this
short.
2.
I need to be in bed tucked up and asleep by 9pm
to be able to function for the next day.
Following the end the fifth full week back, I feel myself
crumbling under the weight of tiredness. I feel myself becoming more stressed
about the little things. This is not a
good thing and it is something that I feel is important to try to combat at the
early stages of my career to save myself a lot of stress in the future. Currently, my strategies include: knitting
and early nights.
So to expand on the first key
point that I have learned this week, I have been attempting to put up some wall
displays. My room looked rather
lacklustre and bare previously. Now, I
feel that it probably looks slightly worse with my attempts to hang freeze
paper straight with only the aid of 3 small second year pupils and a chair to
stand on. The rough cut edges, squinty
paper and close to a million staples at least have a little bit of
character.
So as I have gotten to know my
classes a bit more, I feel that I am building up some nice relationships with
them. The trust and understanding is
starting to build on both sides meaning that my classroom is a much more
positive and productive place already.
I am
remarkably getting used to the routine of leaving the house before 7a.m., being
in bed before 10p.m. and battling a 40 minute commute on top of the
exhaustion. Being much more organised,
settled in to a way of living is so much easier. I feel like I am able to get more done in
less time.
My S1 classes are all about to change and in some ways this
is really sad. On one hand, they are only
just starting to settle down but on the same front, the classes are being set
according to ability meaning that my tasks won’t have to be as differentiated
as they are right now. We are doing some
lovely little book projects at the moment which will eventually make a lovely
wall display (if I ever get the hang of wall displays).
S2 have had a busy week, both of my classes were rehearsing
productions of a scene from ‘White Poppies’ and have been putting together
their group performances. I had an observed
lesson during one of the actual recitals.
The observation was to focus on how well I had implemented peer
assessment and feedback however, it was a little chaotic. It still went really well though so that was
all good.
Finally, S3 who are still teaming their way through the
media unit on ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ and seem to be really enjoying
it so far. The class are quite chatty at
times and can often be found heading off topic.
I have a constant task of reminding them of the expectations that are on
their shoulders. They are gradually
getting there though.
So as another week starts…bring on the October break!
Miss.
