When you teach the same subject all day, material is bound to get a little monotonous. Your voice starts to drone on in your mind, you start questioning whether or not you've already said the thing you just said, and you struggle to keep it interesting-for yourself. I'd forgotten all that...until today.
By 7th period, which is really only the third class I teach, with two more left to go, my eyes felt droopy, my mind a puddle of repeated mush. By 8th period, I actually noticed my repetitive voice fluctuating at precisely the same times as the classes prior (a fact which I'm sure caused my student teacher to infer I was reading from a script-- I was not.) By 9th period, with carefully timed jokes now three classes stale, my blistered feet (which haven't seen heals since May) trudged on through til the blissful tone of the dismissal bell. The first full day is over.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
About the boring.
Posted by Kelly at 9:22 PM
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I too, Kelly, feel the same way! I actually have tried something different this year - My first period is a day behind my other classes because that period seems to be the shortest (thanks to our morning news) and I have my lowest kids of the day in there. So instead of being my guinea pigs for the day, they actually get the best version of the lesson, because I've "tested" it 3 times already on 3 separate class periods.
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