Not a great day as a high school teacher today. Not terrible, but not great.
First, I saw my students' grades on this common test all the Spanish 2 teachers give. After a lot of work and worry, their scores STILL aren't where I want them to be. As far as I can tell, they're lower than some, maybe all, of the other Spanish 2 teachers' kids' scores. It makes me feel like I'm just not very good at this job.
Then, a bunch of district administrators came in (just for a routine visit, not to evaluate me) during what was not my finest teaching moment. It was a class that's not very academic, I was speaking what I felt was too much English, and everything was a little disorganized.
This isn't the reason I'm leaving the classroom, but it's a nice reminder that my job right now isn't perfect. And it's definitely a change from all the idealizing of teaching I was doing last week.
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