My Biggest Fear

I have learned many strategies so far on this journey.  Some things I plan on doing that I didn't plan before I started this course are:

• using class Dojo
• greeting every child as they enter the room
• mid day exercises
• more computer, less chalkboard
• asking each student what works best for them
• using a timer & maybe using checklist for students who need extra attention
• kidblog
• 3 before me
• many others...

I think my biggest fears so far are, not having enough support from the school.  Wherever I am placed, some schools are more organized than others. How much time will i have to prepare for each curriculum?  I am wondering how the whole process works. Am I given a topic and then expected to just plan my own lesson.  I just don't know what kind of guidelines, time frame and how much freedom I'll have, on my own as a teacher to teach the lesson.  Every school system and county is different.  I am hoping most of this will get covered in my mentor teaching.  

  My other fear is the parent/teacher conference days.  Especially being a first year teacher, (although I technically have some teaching experience under my belt) parents are going to see me as a first year teacher and there will always be that one parent drilling you with questions or thinking you aren't good enough, since its your first official year as a teacher. I don't know how I will handle that. I just need to know the right things to say and not get stuck or build up the confidence, so that parent can have just as much confidence too.  In all honesty I am more worried about the parents than the students.  Some parents are hard on the teacher and then you have the ones who are worthless and you need them to be involved and they just wont budge. 

I feel more confident with classroom management and I think its also going to be easier to plan out more, once I know how many SPED kids I have, etc...