No Longer a Newbie

Oops. I should have updated this a little sooner, but my online access pretty much stopped when I moved from Jersey City to Manhattan. My first year was rough, but at the same time pretty good. The crazy freshmen and I reached an understanding and started working together. I taught my stagecraft class in the spring and it went fairly well - the kids liked the opportunity to do something a little different. I also taught a section of sophomores, which gave me a taste of what was to come.

This school year, I taught only sophomores all fall. It was the same kids from last year, but it was a huge difference - they grew up. We got a lot more accomplished than ever before. The semester recently ended and I was really quite pleased with how it went. This semester will be interesting. Two of my sections of sophomores were given to a new teacher who whined a lot and couldn't handle the freshmen (this was an option? I should have done it last year!) Anyway, I was stuck with his freshmen, but I complained and got two sections of juniors instead. I'm also teaching one section of Team Teaching English, but don't know my team teacher yet. Classes start tomorrow, so this will be interesting. I'll try to update this more frequently, but no promises.