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a Teach For America teacher’s blog
My kids have many flaws. The most blaring of which I see throughout my A day. On A day, I teach every class period. In other words, I have kids in my room (assuming I don’t get any coming for tutoring before school) from when the first bell rings at 8:20a.m. until the end of tutoring after school at 4:50. In addition, on A day I have my most difficult classes (2nd and 3rd period) followed by a large chatty class that is primarily a challenge simply because it falls both at the end of the school day AND after my most challenging classes (when I am tired and a bit off my game due to presenting the same lesson for the 4th time that day and 7th time total). My students (mostly on A day, but in general) don’t treat each other very well. I think it is pretty…
read more »I’m back in Dallas after what was the most ideal break I can possibly imagine. After a week of sleeping and eating and spending time with some of my family, I began to really be able to reflect on my life right now and my role as a teacher. In addition to my personal reflecting,…
read more »I made it to Thanksgiving. I made it back from Thanksgiving. Then, I made it to Winter Break. And, I will make it back…but I’m not in a hurry. I have been on break for 4 days now. The time is flying by. I’m spending it with my family in Costa Rica and just being…
read more »…so many things. This has been a big year full of new people and experiences. I’m so thankful to be where I am (in Dallas and at my school) and what I am doing, teaching Spanish and hopefully making a positive impact on my kids.
read more »For all of my optimism and my passion for what I am doing, I’m at a very low place right now. I hate the way that I feel right now. I am not living up to my role as the leader of my classroom and the role model for my students. I suspected from the…
read more »The fact that I haven’t updated this blog in over a month and could say so many things but I have to choose only a few to highlight, is a great metaphor for life as a teacher. This weekend we had an All Corps Conference, where the whole corps gets together and we talk about…
read more »Sleep did not come easy before the first day of school. I tossed and turned in my bed until after 2am. Although I spent all day Sunday excited, I woke up Monday morning extremely nervous. As I walked in to school, I hoped the day would pass quickly. It did. The day was done before…
read more »It seems unreal that the first day of school is on Monday and I am going to be the teacher. The CEO of my classroom, if you will. Since Institute: 1) I moved into my apartment with another TFA Spanish teacher. 2) Attended numerous hours of training, some quality (the ones that TFA organizes) and…
read more »I found out that I was accepted to Teach For America on March 8 at about 11:35a.m. I had been checking my email on my phone every 5 minutes all morning. My 11a.m. Finance class was released early and I decided to check my email one more time before packing up to leave, and there…
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