That was how I reacted in my very first classroom with 3 students. Before anyone says that 3 students sounds like a piece of cake...not when they are 4 and 5 years old with no language, have serious emotional and behavioral disorders, have austism, and were always eloping from class. I had no idea what to do!
Like everyone else says..good luck with teaching. A good support system from the administrators and other teachers is very very vital to anyone surviving this career. I think I am burnt out cuz I didnt have a good support system with my aide being absent for more than half of the year and my boss being overwhelmed with other issues to help out much. My boss is really nice but I miss my orginal boss..he always took action for his staff. This boss gets too overwhelmed with everything and has trouble with time management which left many of us without support. I just found out that I will have a better aide this year and I will team teach with a good friend of mine so I think I will have a better year this year than I did in the last 2 years.[/QUOTE]
Shel
Can you tell me when u says Team teaching are you saying the two classes are joined together of all the same age or range of their levels.
I have just been trialling this Team teaching thingy this year with a Hearing Teacher who has a new entrant students and two other students who are in y2 and y3 equalivent to grade 2 and 3 in your country and mixing them with my y5 and 6 students and finding it a real nightmare because this teacher just cant cope with all of them together as she unable to plan for all needs so it ended up with me doing most of all the work thus feeling stressed out as plannign for 12 students altogether so I simply cant wait for the end of the year as I will be saying NO more to this kind of Team Teaching unless i have the same age group but not matter about their levels cos it just too hard trying to entertain the little ones and the older ones kept missing out.
Tell me more about ur view on Team Teaching. Would love to hear about it.
Sorry it off topic but you brought up a topic that really got my attention there.
