So in Grade 4 there are six of us all together. It has been like a dream come true. Working with the dream team. On our team are people who have been teaching for a while and also a few people who are new to the school while others this is their second year. After working by myself for the past 4 years, getting to work at a big school with other teachers was a prerequisite for a new school. After talking with the superintendent in January and finding out that I would be one of 6 teachers, I knew this was the place for me.
As a team we have been meeting every other day to help with planning lessons and making sure that we are all on task. We get to help each other figure out how to deal with certain issues and to work out how the math program will work within our classes. Right now I am really just sitting and listening and throwing in my 2 cents, but also really enjoying having 5 other people around me to bounce ideas off of.
The other great thing that our team has is a teacher's assistant. She is the person that I can turn to for copies, laminating, cutting, decorating etc. We rotate her around the six classes since we work on a 6 day schedule. So today was my day to have her and it is amazing. I ask her to do something and before I know its on my desk and ready to be used. She picked up my kids and dropped them off at their next lesson just so that I could continue working on what I was doing. I am going to owe this girl big time. AMAZING!
My other favorite person is the copy man. No more fighting with the machine to get it to do what you want it to do. You ask the copy man, tell him what you want and he makes it happen. I don't even need to touch the machine and get close to it. I am pretty tech savvy but sometimes copy machines and I don't get a long.
Honestly the people that I get to work with are really amazing people. I am so happy with my choice and am really looking forward to a great year and an awesome learning experience. I now need to figure out what will be my teacher goal for the year. Each teacher sets one and then during the year they check in with their buddy to see how things are going. I just need to narrow my thoughts down to something I know I can measure and feel that I can do within this year.
By the way . .. my class is also great, the kids are beyond nice and respectful. Just what a class should look like. We have done so much team building over the past week and just really getting to know each other. Remembering all of their names was my greatest challenge because they aren't name that have been common for me. But that's ok, I love a challenge. A random kid came up to me and gave me a hug today and that felt amazing. I need to find out who this kid is because he made my day.
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