1st Day

Sept 3, 2019, Its now underway, I am officially the teacher assistant for 4th and 5th grade. the hardest part so far is just trying to figure our all their names. I have been associated with private and public schools, but this is the first time with a parochial school teaching policy. Its a little different because you can use God and prayer in every lesson. I’m trying to play off the lead teacher in giving her all the room to develop her discipline style. Under no circumstances do you go to bathroom and definitely to get water during instruction. Must begin to set some guidelines early, so in six weeks its habit. I didn’t recognize it at the time it was happening but I saw my first student, being over whelmed and not understanding a lesson, turn into a stomach ache so bad, a drink of water, and a toilet visit couldn’t stop a visit to the office and a call to go home early. He has some learning difficulties, that without help now, he will continue to fall further behind. He does appear to have a little better grasp of math, but still low. Its going to take a slower approach to get the basics before they move on or more will be lost, afraid to ask questions. Building always takes a good foundation. Sometime you need to modify and slow down so every student has the basic down before moving on so as not to lose more, later down the road. Learning isn’t easy, we all do it differently. The challenge is to find each student their own unique way to do it, and helping them to improve upon themselves. Encourage, praise and discipline all work hand in hand on building a solid foundation for growth and more accomplishment. Tomorrow starts another day of learning from the bottom up, and back down on this two way street of life knowledge.