Chapter 1

This is my very first blog ever...thanks for reading! My blog is about teaching. I did not grow up knowing that teaching was my calling. So...a few years ago I signed up for a Teacher Certification Program. I attended classes, took some state exams, and thought finding a job would be a piece of cake. Wrong. When I didn't get a teaching job I did substitute teaching, then accepted a job in a day care in my neighborhood. One day I found a website with a multitude of charter schools and emailed every one that had an e-mail address. To make a long story short, I heard back from one school that took a chance and hired me. Now the fun begins.

Whoever thought teaching would be so much work? I hate to admit my ignorance but I didn't. First of all, I was offered the position in June, and worked the next five weeks without pay. Not only trying to get ready for what I was teaching, but painting the entire classroom with life size dinosaurs on the walls! The charter school had branched out and so the classrooms were in a separate building that needed complete painting. Once school started I realized they had no scope and sequence! For those of you unfamiliar with the term, this meant it was up to me, a brand new teacher, to figure out what to teach each week for the next 180 school days.

I love every one of my students. They are really great but they love, love love...did I say LOVE?...to talk and talk. They have to constantly be reminded that we are there to learn. Oh, and I am having to learn the Montessori method of teaching at the same time, using that method of teaching. It has definitely been a challenge.