Teaching is tough

Yesterday I wrote about how much I love teaching, and how excited I was to be back teaching. Well today was the exact opposite. It was a tough day for me. We are reviewing right now so as a class we went through some review material, and this didn't work very well. I followed the same format as yesterday, but things didn't work, The review ended early I tried to do more reviewing but I was too frustrated. Things really didn't work. I changed things up for my second class, instead me leading the class in the review, I had them work on it in small groups and at the end of class we corrected it together this worked much better. today really made me reconsider teaching though, it was a tough teaching day. The last class of the day helped bring me back to liking teaching, it was the funnest class. This is a "special" class I don't know the reason's why but these students aren't allowed to interact with other students at the school, but this is by far my funnest class. I was reading what the state standards are to the students so they would know exactly what they are being tested on, and while I was reading one student started reading along, and then another student and soon the entire class was voluntarily taking turns reading the standards, I had them on a projector and was highlighting the words as the students read them. Then we started to have fun, I would highlight the words faster or slower, and the students would read the standards accordingly, then I started repeating and the students would repeat what was highlighted, it was fun. With this class I let let the entire class work together on the review, they huddled around 2 computers and began to work, it was great watching them. After everyone had finished we corrected the reviews. This class really helped me like teaching again, my first couple classes were tough.