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I just got an offer for a teaching position in a third grade class. I am SOOOO excited!! I graduated a year ago and have been working hard to find a position and it finally happened. I start in the beginning of the year! Along with the excitement I am nervous. Naturally, this is my first class that is truly mine and I want things to go as well as possible. The school is inner-city, very diverse, and I am the third teacher the class has had this school year! I know it is going to be a challenge, but it is one I am very excited for. I am just worried about being the 3rd teacher. Both of their previous teachers left after only a couple months. I don't know if this is a reflection on the kids, but I am confident they won't scare me away. I just need advice on starting fresh without a total upheaval. I want to really show the kids I am there to stay and make our class a community. A lot of these kids have probably had to deal with people leaving them their whole life and I hate that this ha...See More
Sara You're great - more teachers should be like you. This though will be a hard job and it might try some of your wonderful enthusiasm and your philosophy a bit - most first year teachers in any school almost feel like they're drowning in the work and the problems they're just beginning to learn to manage. So if you feel that way - it's normal. How man...See More
Dec 22, 2009
Zodea I don't teach elementary so take my advice with a grain of salt!

I suggest you read to the students. Find a good book and read to them. Maybe read several a day. Often students will be quiet and listen to a story when they won't be quiet for anything else. Once they are quite and attentive, you can move onto something else. Gives them some...See More
Dec 24, 2009
Leah Reading to students can not only teach listening skills, but it can be a reward at the end of the day.

Also, you may find the following short articles helpful:

Elementary Classroom Rules and Management; Reward in the Classroom; Getting to Know Each Other Activities, part 1, 2, and 3; and 75 others for teachers.

Just cl...See More
Dec 29, 2009


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