Saturday, September 1, 2012

Thoughts on the Week

What an exhausting week of school!  The students are starting to settle in and their personalities are beginning to show (for better or worse).  It's really weird that the number of fights has increased in school dramatically, especially after 3 years of a steady decrease in major discipline issues.  On Tuesday, I filled in for the 3 assistant principals as they were out of school all day.  It made me realize how crazy and hectic the school day can become and how little time it takes for situations to escalate if no teacher is around who is capable of stepping in to stop it.  While it does little to decrease my desire to step into administration, it was definitely an eye-opener as to the need to adjust to the school day.  Finally, to finish the week, I had a situation with a student who I really want to do well and I was attempting to make sure that the student was in a position to be successful.  Unfortunately the issue was not handled all that well on several levels and my intentions got buried underneath a pile of misconceptions about who I am as a person and teacher.  The real heartbreaker was that the student, who is a wonderful person, felt like they let me down (which wasn't the case) and I had to make sure that they understood I was only doing in what I believed was their best interest.

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