So there are things I really like
about teaching at Polaris and some I don’t. I think I would like teaching there
if I started at the beginning of the year instead of taking over for the last
term. Most of the classes have adjusted to how I run a class and are starting
to encourage the other students to behave. I have had students tell me that I
teach way better than the teacher I took over for and I have had students tell
me that I’m worse. Most of the students that have decided I’m worse never
really gave me a chance in the first place. I feel like I’m modifying behavior
more than I teach math. I usually plan about 20 minutes of a lesson to teach
each day and it usually takes me 40 minutes to get through it. I teach a class
that I wasn’t ever taught how to teach, so it’s an adventure everyday to make a
lesson. There also isn’t a book to teach this class so I just have a list of
standards that I need to teach for the week. Most of the time I have to learn
about what I need to teach before I can make a lesson plan.
I teach at Polaris until May 18th
then summer break!!!
