I love Teaching!!!

Today was my first day back from Winter break. I had an epiphany today, I am going into the right career, I love teaching. I didn't have to be at work until 10:00 AM today, I showed up before 8:00. I was excited I have extra time to work on lesson planning and preparation. I don't have any more university classes to worry about--I'm still taking classes but only for fun. My epiphany came when I was told for the third time that the break was too short. I think it was like 12 days. I was excited to come back to school today I was ready to teach.

This morning since I arrived so early I planned my lessons for the whole week, we are reviewing this week for a final next week. I plan on reteaching everything that we have covered this semester in the next 7 days. Today the computers were having trouble logging on so I switched to tomorrow's lesson which is reviewing proofreaders marks and proofing a business letter. The lesson went very well the students remembered a lot more than I was anticipating. The first class finished with about 7 minutes of time left. I gave them Free time--most slept as they are still tired from Christmas break. My other classes were told if they stayed on task they would also get the free time. Every class stayed on task. It was great. I was glad that I printed out the weeks lesson's so I was able to switch at a moments notice for a lesson that did not involve the computers.

I really enjoyed today, the students all listened and seemed to understand. My favorite was when Henry a student that can't seem to say much more than "I don't get it" shouted out an answer that no one else knew, that really made my day.

I really do enjoy teaching.