A New Job, A New School

Over my few years of teaching, starting with when I was first hired, I've learned that nothing is settled in a school until the day school actually starts or sometimes after. I interviewed this week for an instructional specialist job on Thursday and found out late yesterday that I had been picked for it. This summer has really been a transition time for me. I am trying to adjust to the idea that I will no longer have "my kiddos", and that I will now be working with teachers.

I am excited to get started, but sad to pack up my room and leave my friends, colleagues and students. The next few weeks will be bittersweet.

A New Day Dawns

I spent the day at my school today going over rules and procedures and how to's. It occured to me that over the next few weeks, several teachers will need to be reminded, or go back to their notes, on what is the expectation. With that, I thought, how do we expect our kids to know it in one day?

Expectations must be taught, retaught, and modeled on a regular basis. I sat in a training one time and the trainer said, if you think kids should know how to take care of a bathroom, spend some time in a bathroom at a professional ball game. Adults don't follow their own expectations.

So I set a new goal for myself today. My expectations will not be drilled and killed, but an ungoing lesson. I hope it works.

This is my first blogpost so I hope that it works!