First Week of School

I started teaching!!! My first class I had 17 students enrolled and only 5 showed up (the whole week). My elective class has 30 signed up and I had 17 show up. The elective class is public speaking and they are very active, which is great. I know that it will be a great class. My other class is English Skills. The students are what we consider Seniors. Next semester they will graduate. It’s hard to tell what the class will be like because the students that bothered to show up the first week are the cream of the crop, so there’s no telling what the other 12 will be like. I might have an idea by a guy that came on Thursday. He showed up 10 minutes late. The other students were filling out a survey, so I gave him the survey, and then we moved on to a timed writing. He didn’t do the timed writing, instead he completed the survey and asked me if he could leave. What could I have said? He’s a grown man; I can’t say no! He ended up leaving after being in my class for about five minutes. Let me describe his appearance and what he said on his survey. He was wearing all white, with a shirt that said “Husla”, and a headband that was like this /\/\/\/\/\/\ (remember those, they’re kind of old). His answer to what are your long-term goals was “to become a star”!!!! His interests were working out, and hang out. He marked all of his English skills as poor. Remember, this guy is a Senior and in theory would be teaching English next year!!! I’m getting excited because the graduate course starts next week. I can see that my challenge for this semester will be providing material that is a challenge for the top students, while keeping the lower students from drowning. Wish me luck!