This post could also be called "How to teach the Spanish Alphabet so good that you have to ban students from singing it" .  Or "For heaven's sake - it's March, please stop singing that song" . For the record, I've only had to ban one class from continuing to sing the alphabet song well into March.  That class was full of overly enthusiastic 7th-grade girls. 🙃 ...

The first year is the hardest. Seriously. If you're in your first year now, just know that IT GETS BETTER . And easier. ...

I used to have a recurring nightmare every single year that it was the first day of school and I had an entire class of kids in front of me and I had no lesson plans . No PowerPoint, no papers, no supplies whatsoever. Just me and a class of kids staring at me. I had to wing it and try not to give them the impression that I'm an unprepared buffoon. ...