Saturday, October 9, 2010

A First

Friends have told me I should write, especially when it comes to my stories about teaching, so here's my crack at it.

I can't promise anything other than the truth of what happens in my classroom, or classrooms as the case may be.  At the moment, I'm a traveling teacher and occupy a total of five different rooms. With the constant movement, havoc is always around the corner. Inevitably, the last teacher took the dry erase markers, I left something in another classroom, I'm missing five desks, or something of that sort.  

A colleague of mine promised that if we can all survive this, we will be better teachers for it. I have to admit, sometimes I feel like I won't survive this.  These last five weeks have worn down my stamina.  Perhaps that's why I now feel called to write this blog.  JK Rowling said recently--and I'm paraphrasing here--that she doesn't know what she thinks or believes until she writes it down.  I suppose this is my effort to make sense of what this year is so that it can transform into what it needs to be.  

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