Oh how I LOVE it! (I hope you can just hear the sarcasm dropping from that whole sentence.) The summer is ending and I have been in my classroom getting it prepared for the lovely kids to come next week. It seems like this year I spent less time getting ready, yet I still feel like I am prepared and ready to go.
Today I sat in WONDERFUL (sarcasm-again) workshops to "prepare" me for this year, yet each year they seem to present stuff to us that we don't have to start right away (example- the reading curriculum we learned about today isn't supposed to be fully implemented until 2010) or stuff that doesn't pertain at all to us. All it does is make me feel overwhelmed and really wanting to get out of their.
Plus it is really INTERESTING to me, how some people focus on things they can't change. My thinking is that you can't do anything about it, so either forget about it or embrace it and figure out a way to make it work. You will have kids in your classroom (the amount will just depend on how many register-they all have to go somewhere). Their will be a mixture (ELL included) of students. Your job will be to teach them. No matter how much you complain, whine, and cry about it. That's your job! That's what you signed up for!
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