Being a first year teacher has many challenges. Mostly, no one thinks you're going to be able to last. But there are others. When you're the new guy at a school, new teacher or not, you get the short end of the stick. You don't get your own classroom so you have to float, you have a crappy computer, you don't get the computer lab when you request it, you get the lunch period that dissects your fourth period class rather than the lunch before or after fourth period and most of all when a bunch of kids want to start a club featuring games like Risk, Stratego and Chess, guess who they ask to sponsor it.
So far I've managed to escape most of those traps. I have my own room, for the most part. I have a good computer, I am one of a few teachers with a flat screen monitor and I have the computer lab all to myself for four of the last five days of school prior to Christmas break. However, I have B lunch, which sucks, and I am the sponsor of the brand new Strategy Club.
Once a week I sit in a classroom that isn't my own and listen to a bunch of kids play Risk and try to cuss without my hearing it. Good fun, right? Tonight is our kickoff party, which means I get to sit in a room, thankfully my own, for four hours while kids that I haven't even met yet eat pizza, play Risk and don't care if I hear them cuss or not. At least I'll get ahead on my lesson plans tonight.
Strategy Club, it's not just for nerds, it's also for people that want free pizza.
1 comments:
well if your think first year teaching is terrible try first year stydying...you get all the bad treatment you mentioned and more, because now not only do you get such treatment from lectures but also from senors and tutors which is just awfull but a guess it comes with being the new kid on the blog..check out a blog we set up for first year around South we usually post staff related to first time experiences in academic environments such as varsity.
http://www.firstyearblood.blogspot.com
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