Everyday I am learning.

Ah this journey of first year teaching is proving to be quite exhausting but amazingly rewarding. I literally go to sleep before most people eat dinner...don't judge! Anyways, I have some students that I but heads with on a daily basis. One student struggles to get work done and has melt downs everyday and another can't stand getting corrected yet does the same things everyday that causes me to have to correct her. I am working on being disciplined in praying for wisdom for these two precious children, who I truly love and want to see succeed and overcome these obstacles. I know that there are several who have things going on at home that are causing these behaviors at school, so I hope and pray that I am able to reach out to them somehow. I never imagined how hard it is to find the fine line between discipline and love and compassion. Again to be wise enough to know when to love with a firm "hand" and to love with compassion and grace is something I am striving for and believe can only truly come the Lord.

I am constantly learning from everyday and desire to become a better teacher with each success and failure. I have learned this week that I am not much different than my students and the things that I discipline them for are some of the same things I do today and/or did as a student myself. Examples, yesterday I was walking and reading something at the same time and almost ran into someone, which I would have, of course, told a student to pay attention to where they were going. I struggled to pay attention to the teacher in grade school all the way through college, so much so that I prayed that I never got called on. I never really got into trouble in school and didn't have many of the same problems that my students do, but I do realize that at times I do a lot of the same things I correct my students for. Does this mean I will be let them slide more with these...NO lol I do not want them making the same mistakes I do, but I will remember more that I am the same way and have more compassion in my correcting.

Story of the week:

Sweet boy in my class at carpool comes to me as I am getting ready to load him and his little brother and says: Miss Davis, my brother said he likes you because he likes your elbows. Which embarrassed his little brother, so his little brother began hitting him with his lunchbox. Ah this is what makes my job better than the rest. I always hoped someone would admire my elbows lol, it is now a requirement for my future husband ;).