(hope)Fully

I am at a planning standstill because I now have too many jobs. Brain does not compute.

I will teach two ninth grade genre courses. I will start and run a writing center. I will run a learning lab for kids who had less-than-stellar grades last term. I will be yearbook editor for the first time. I will write writing guidelines, like a style book, for the humanities departments at my school. I will finish my tech grant. I will prepare a presentation for a regional independent schools conference.

I will move to my fifth classroom in four years. I will unpack my boxes and find my materials.

I will not lose my mind.

Comments

[jennifer]

jesus, i'm overwhelmed and losing my mind just reading this.

[Tom Kim]

Best of luck to you. Hope you don't have to resort scoring Ritalin from your students.

[Mimi]

Yikes!! Are you serious?? Way to jump back into the fire...good luck with all that stuff!!

Thanks for checking out my blog!!!

[Jóhannes Þ.]

That pretty much summed up my own job description ;-) Guess teaching is the same everywhere in the world :-) But the bottom line is this: You are a teacher. You will do all those jobs and you will do great! How we do that is a mystery... it's a kind of magic ;-)

Best wishes from a fellow teacher in Iceland who just happened to stumble in here. And if you havn't seen it, check out Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" video... you can find it here: http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/what-teachers-make-p1.php