They need structure, routine, expectations, etc. Harry Wong talks about kids needing to have something to do right when they get into class. Also, I really had mostly wonderful kids, so I knew it really wasn’t their fault. This is not always easy, but I have become very reflective and flexible in my short teaching career *survival of the fittest friends. I knew that I had to change though and had to try and control the things I could control. My homeroom came back to me at the end of the day as well… and that was also a super tough transition. CONTROLLING WHAT I COULD CONTROL WITH ELA BELL RINGERS I’m talking literal wrestling, yelling, not getting ANY supplies… Just shear chaos. In general, my homeroom was okay, but the second class (who had a different teacher almost every week), was making me lose my EVER LOVING MIND. I had always loved Harry Wong’s First Days of School, but again, my classroom management had been “manageable” until I was into this new position. ![]() I was the only consistency our 6th graders had, but I was struggling when they were coming into my room after whoever was their math and science teacher that day. To keep it brief, when I was hired for my 6th grade position, not only was I told I would be only teaching ELA, but I was also told there was an issue with my teaching partner situation.īy December, I was on my 7th (YES 7TH) teaching partner. Turns out not so much… SIXTH GRADE ELA DEPARTMENTALIZED POSITION Long story short, I moved across the state and took a 6th grade position that I *thought* was 6th grade self-contained. I knew nothing else, and honestly, at the time, I didn’t really want to. I taught self-contained 5th grade for three years (that included my student teaching). In the last couple of years I have gone through some teaching position changes that I never thought would happen to me.
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