There have been so many changes in my life in the past few months it's hard to even know where to begin. I made the choice to resign from my job as a reading teacher in Florida and return to teaching in California. Talk about a big move!!! After 6 years of teaching strictly reading, I am once again a 6th grade self-contained teacher. Even though I have been an educator for 18 years, I feel like a first year teacher all over again. I find myself spending long hours searching for resources to use in my classroom, hours of lesson planning, and trying to create a structure in my classroom that works. I think managing a self-contained class is a lot more difficult than managing a group of kids you only see for 90 minutes. I am not used to having the same kids all day anymore and boy is it a challenge to keep 28 kids, engaged and on task all day long.
My sixth grade class is at an elementary school so that means I am responsible for teaching all subjects including P.E. Some days I wonder what I got myself into, but I know in the end I will find a way to put all the pieces together and create a classroom environment that works. Until then it's late nights and early mornings putting together what I need to make it through the day. It gets easier with each week that passes. Hopefully, by the time May rolls around I will look back on the year fondly and wonder how it went by so quick. I am so grateful that there are other teachers out there willing to share their ideas and make life so much easier.
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