In my Humble Opinion,Teaching is not for Wimps
The past few weeks I've been visiting a fourth grade classroom four times a week teaching opinion writing. It's been several years since I taught anyone under the age of twenty and, though I have more than eighteen years of elementary teaching experience, I was terrified. I laughed at myself when I realized how very nervous I was to get started. First of all, I was borrowing a classroom and that is a great deal of trust placed in me and I wanted to do a good job. Second of all, there's so much you forget so quickly when you're away from the elementary classroom. It's just like riding a bike.... but it's like riding a bike that you have to assemble first. The first few days I realized how quickly I'd forgotten all of the management strategies I had collected over the years. The decision making is second by second and one wrong call can result in chaos or loss of focus or steering a student in the wrong direction and having to make a repair. I h...