Miss Señorita: behavior management
Scenario: It's the end of Unit 1 in Spanish 1 and your school district requires you to assess each kid's speaking skills.  Individually.   At the end of each and every unit.  Oh and you have 35 kids in each of 6 classes. It's the stuff nightmares are made of....
My 7th grade Social Studies teacher let us choose our seats.   On the very first day of school!   It was something I had never been allowed to do before and it was incredibly exciting.  We could all sit with our friends!  ...
The first year is the hardest. Seriously. If you're in your first year now, just know that IT GETS BETTER . And easier. ...
I love sticky notes. I make lists of things I n eed to do on them all the time. (Doe s it even count as completing a task if you don't get to cross it off a list?) ...
Teaching can be a very solitary profession.  I mean, you're surrounded by people, but they're children and teenagers. They hardly count as humans . You have limited adult interaction!...