Herding Cats

Long time, no post. Very long story short - I got a job! I have a Masters degree and a job. Does this mean I have any clue what I'm doing, in regards to my career as a teacher? No. But anyways, I found a mid-year teaching job at Peoria High School. Which is totally amazing and I am super lucky to have found a teaching job mid-year. But it is like nothing I've ever done. Ever. Exhausting and overwhelming are good adjectives. Asking me how it is going really just depends on the day.

For example, today was rough. At times, I feel like I'm an elementary school teacher, which is not what I wanted to do. This is why I obtained my degree in Secondary Education. It's just very different from what I experienced last semester in my student teaching with honors Sophomores. With my new job, I have low-level Freshmen (well and some Sophomores and Juniors) who don't exactly love school (mostly because it is hard for them and they've probably struggled for awhile) - so sometimes it's akin to herding or wrangling cats just to get them to pay attention long enough to listen to instructions, or stay quiet during independent work. Oddly, the only thing that seems to keep them paying attention is when I have them take notes. Notes. The most boring part of school. I will never understand teenagers. Okay, this is my rant and also my way of avoiding the lesson planning I'm supposed to be doing.