So I told myself that when I moved to Arizona for my first teaching job that I would start a blog about my adventure here. Well it has taken me several weeks and now a couple months to finally get to it. Teaching is not an easy job I find myself with little time to set aside to blog about my experience.
I started my first teaching job with 26 8th graders. Doesn't sound too bad right?...well 22 of then were boys...and only 4 girls. The first couple days were rough. I never had that honeymoon period that people talked about. My students were extremely comfortable with me from the first moment I met them. I knew they were bgoing to be a lively bunch of kids. However I knew that there was no way I could handle that may 13 year old boys in one class.
On day 2 of school I went to administration and asked that they do something about the amount of boys I had. They attempted to "fix" the problem by removing 2 boys. The dynamics changed a little but nothing too drastic. I continued to teach these students. Finally after 2 full weeks of this the counselor came in to talk to my class and she was having trouble controlling the class. She asked me how it was going and I was extremely candid with her about how hard it had been. Within the next 2 days I was down to 17 boys and 4 girls. Things were changing and it was improving a little. My the time we had our first parent night I was feeling pretty good. Things were running more smoothly and I felt like I was getting somewhere with the kids. I was able to meet a couple of my students parents and it was a great time.
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