You like the kids more than they like you You will care more about the kids' grades than they will You can't be a perfectionist (luckily I'm not) You have to be able to take criticism (unfortunately I can't) I am rubbish at being a novice
Tag: workin’
Pressure
Since this month's NaBloPoMo theme is 'pressure', I thought I ought to write about it at least once this month and yet every day that I have come to write something I have felt reluctant. Maybe this is because 'pressure' is such a negative word and my word for 2014, as you know, is Positivity.… Continue reading Pressure
Back to School
Yesterday, I was back at school for teacher training and while this posts, I will be slap bang in the middle of a full day of teaching. As I went to bed last night, I was surprisingly calm (despite some last minute planning because it wouldn't be me if I was *completely* prepared ahead of… Continue reading Back to School
5 things to do before the end of the year
Read 9 more books Watch Whedon's version of Much Ado about Nothing - I got it for Christmas and I'm so happy! Tidy my work area Start planning some lessons Change the time on my car - it's been annoying me since October
Nerves
This evening I am a bag of nerves. Tomorrow I have a meeting with a teaching mentor which I am not looking forward to, I have volunteered to perform with another teacher at the school Children in Need show for the students and I have my first observation on Monday. I am not sure which… Continue reading Nerves
Avoidance
It's Saturday night and instead of marking, I'm draining my iPad battery reading the whole of Buzzfeed and taking freaky selfies. Love my job. Hate the homework.
Work Eat Sleep
Today has been one of those days where it's non-stop. A long day at work including a three hour open evening (in which I talked to two of my year 11s and realised they actually like my subject and me as their teacher - a revelation!) has been followed by a fantastic dinner out with… Continue reading Work Eat Sleep
3 Things
I am at work today (my summer job with my parents!) and I am working on 3 screens at the same time for this job. This has mostly been working well although I have on several occasions tried to enter numbers onto my iPad using my PC keyboard. D'oh!
The Possibilities of Mondays
For the past 20 months or so, Mondays don't instill dread the same way they do more most 9-to-5ers. Instead of that Sunday Night Feeling, I get a frisson of hope for the week ahead. It's a new leaf. A new start. A chance to do things right this week. Never one to start in… Continue reading The Possibilities of Mondays
14. Time
Time is a funny animal. There is never enough but sometimes there is too much. It goes too slowly and it flies by. I waste time more than anything else and yet I am always bemoaning my lack of it. I have a busy day at work today, or at least, I have some important… Continue reading 14. Time
Notes From My Day 