Alas, with every good things comes the bumps along the way. I figure I should share the hard times with all of you along with the good. I love my kids, but it's been a bumpy start for sure. For one my homeroom class has 11 kids which is more ten it should. The kind of teaching we do is designed for small groups of kids (usually around 8 and no more than 10) so that teachers can give every child the individual attention they need while still keeping the others under control and entertained.
My kids are cute, but they can sure be little hellions sometimes. Tony likes to fight with other kids and when "The Girls" get a little too high and mighty it's hard to bring them back to earth. Not to mention the second I turn my back to help a kid who's struggling a bit, all Hell breaks loose. In my rotation, all three of us agree that my kids are the hardest class we teach and we spend so much energy just trying to keep them in order, that it's hard to really get to teaching them.
One of the worst moments was this last thurs when I was bringing them back into my room for closing and they passed the kids leaving and suddenly started a fight, which I only managed to break up cause I yelled really loudly and started banging the storybook I had against my hand. It was kind of a nightmare moment for me. I and the others in my group have decided to get together to come up with a plan for dealing with them so we can be consistent and get this behavior curbed now before it gets any worse. Hopefully we can get it under control, cause it sure is exhausting.
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