Today was the first day of school; boy, was it crazy! I am scheduled to help out in the office (to train my PEIMS replacement) the first two periods of the day, but I ended up spending that time plus my conference period helping with schedule changes. I also have six hours of graduate classes starting today.
The classes themselves went okay. I know it will get easier and the one thing I worried about the most happened: I ran out of stuff to talk about. As a new teacher, I worry about pacing and how much stuff I can discuss or cover in a 45 minute period. Add to that having to cover certain parts of the campus' student handbook (but only in certain classes) and I was off. It doesn't help that I also teach three different things, so what took a while in one class, didn't even come up in another. It wasn't awful and kids behaved, but I really want them to be busy bell to bell. I have had several veteran teachers tell me that pacing will get easier in time.
Tomorrow I have a presentation prepared that I thought might take more than one day to cover, now I think it may not. . . .talk slow!
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