myinnerslut
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I can answer this for mis.
As a first-year teacher (regardless of grade level or subject material(s)), almost every non-classroom moment is taken up with
And that's just the short list of how Year One goes. She won't actually be able to fully appreciate and assess this year until some time after she completes Year Five.
- grading papers
- entering grades (not only for paper work, but classroom participation, etc.) into the grade book (or classroom record book, I think they call them these days, since "grading" children may damage their precious self-esteem
)
- tearing out hunks of hair trying to remember if it was Johnny in row 2 or Jeremy in row 3 who answered almost every question - or at least raised his hand - during oral review
- reviewing and re-reading the next day's lessons to make sure she knows more than the students do about the topic(s)
- organizing her lesson plan book so that turning page 13 will lead to page 14, etc.
- re-filling out her seating chart - again - since she's had to move the same six students 18 times in the last three weeks
- trying to decide - again - if she should continue using green ink to correct papers, or switch back to purple (red, of course, is completely non grata in grading the little butterflies' work!)
- research - in hyper-multiple websites, and in every teacher's guide she has, trying to find lesson plans that will engage - and KEEP - students' interest for more than 12.638 seconds.
Yes. That. Except for the red pen thing, I always grade in red. I'm a traditionalist like that.





