New beginnings...

This year I'm teaching 4th grade! Yaaay!!! Or not...

If teaching at a charter school wasn't hard enough, NOW I get the opportunity to teach in a testing grade. And not just any testing grade, but the one that gets students into the city's best (or worst) middle schools. It's kind of cool that these are the same students that I had my first year teaching when they were in second grade. There's older, hopefully more mature, and so am I! I mean, isn't that why my school's leadership team put me in this position, because they knew I'd succeed? Or did they put me there to burn me out of teaching for good and serve me up on a silver platter? From the looks of today, I'd say the latter.

My first day was not only filled with endless technology mishaps, but I had the pleasure of meeting with the a group of people that disregarded my previous experience with this group of students and the fact that most behaviors were magnified from it being the first day of school!

I'm not liking it... not one bit! However, I do believe that everything happens for a reason and there is usually a lesson in such unfortunate circumstances. And so I pray...

*Jas*