Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Joys of Teaching

I must say I can't believe I have the best job on earth. Teaching. It can be so demanding and rigorous at times, but it surely is worth the reward. Yesterday, I worked for my job share partner and had one of the worst days ever. (It's hard to have bad days when you are only working 2-3 days per week!) Anyway, if it could go wrong it did. I was so frustrated with having to tell my students "I'd be happy to teach you when you are ready...I'll let you go to lunch when you show me you are ready. Please feel free to join me for recess when you are quiet...Let me know when it's time to learn...you get the point.) The barometric pressure must have been completely out of wack today. The kids were crazy. But in the end it was all worth it when one student said to me...(mind you this was the one who was behaving off the walls the most...)"Mrs. Mann, I promise I will be better tomorrow.

How can you not love this job. Kids are so innocent, even when they misbehave at times!

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