Entering the professional field can bring with it a series of unique challenges. As we see in today's installment of Lizzy's story, school teachers must consume a great deal of information during the first few days of the school year. As we reflect on Lizzy's experiences, consider the questions that followed the first chapter:
- How will she spend her time this weekend? Is it more important to learn the district’s policies or prepare for the students?
- Is there anything Lizzy could have done to be better prepared for the things that happened to her this week?
- How do you think you will react when you go through new-teacher orientation and the other meetings associated with the beginning of school?
- What, if anything, can you do now to prepare?
2 comments:
I think Lizzy will spend too much time going over all of the papers, and not enough time preparing for her first week of classes.
I think it's important to balance the time between all of the papers and policies and preparing for her classes and students.
Lizzy could have gone home each night and spent a little time looking through the papers and signing documents. She also could have organized them according the sections.
I think I will be extremely overwhelmed, but I will also be excited, which will give me the drive I need to keep going!
To prepare now I can create a management plan and a first day of school plan that will easily help me get through the first weeks of school, even if I don't have all of my lessons made up.
Lizzy seems to need to put on her big-girl pantyhose and act like a grown-up. She should have expected paper work and meetings before her first week. You get that with any job that's not selling shoes at the mall.
She should have marked what needed to be signed for monday with sticky notes or something instead of whining like a child. She also should have gotten as much done as possible in the boring meetings and all weekend she should focus on the lessons for the kids. The district policies are probably common sense so sign it and read it after you figure out your plan for the first day of school.
Lizzy should have expected this when she got a job so I don't know how she could have been better prepared. Maybe she should have tried to be a little bit more independent instead of getting the Etown Ed Dept. to spoonfeed her a college education.
I don't think I'll have too much trouble with orientation. I've been to boring meetings before and I lived.
What can I do to prepare? Pay attention in Dr. Skillen's class (a little sucking up never hurt anyone).
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