First day of school today. For me, it's the second half of my first year of teaching. I started teaching last year in February. Mostly today consisted of housekeeping items, a little bit of review. Going to be working through review booklets for a few days and then getting into the good stuff.
I think the stuff I have written for 20-2 and 30-2 are pretty good. Realistic examples, lots of multimedia, different activities. Going to try and keep all my lessons under 30 minutes. Definitely going to time myself once I start actually teaching. I think that way, students have time to ask questions, clarify and work on homework in class. The more they work in class, the better for them overall.
My class sizes are ballooning. A class that originally had only 21 kids (omg yay) at the end of June now has 30. And growing. It's a 30-2 class, so the students can be a bit chatty. Working on keeping them motivated to learn. A lot of students in the 30-1 class are getting scared and dropping into mine. My worry is that they think 30-2 is going to be a cakewalk, which it isn't. I'm thinking that overconfidence might prompt them not to work as hard as they should for a diploma course. Hopefully it doesn't affect them adversely.
Meeting new kids, seeing new faces, talking to students I've had before...its exhilarating. I love starting fresh, learning more and revisiting things I've done to see how I can improve.
All in all, a good day.
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