More than a month ago I expressed some thoughts on the next school year and what I learned from a group of wonderful ladies. The plans for next year have changed, though I am still moving out of Room81. I am sure I have more lessons to learn.
I am now almost entirely an English or English support teacher. Only one PE class. English support you ask? Two English Language Development classes and a Reading class are 3 of the 5 I will teach. I will have one senior English class, and I have to admit I have taught and enjoyed 12th grade English for years. It has a good subject matter and as almost-in-the-world the students listen a bit more than usual.
I'm not sure of the lessons to be learned, they will come with time. I do know simplicity and a minimalism is already being thrust on me.I'm a bit of a packrat. I have papers from my first years of teaching decades go. The new room I am in is in size 30% smaller with no storage. The current room has too much storage for a hoarder like me. I can hear the dumpster being dropped off at the school now. All the papers, 20 years old student posters and miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam will be gone. These are good things, and I hope to apply them to my home life as well. Someday.
The best lesson I've learned so far is that everything has a season. Ecclesiates 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: and verse 6: a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away.
I have been keeping things I shouldn't and searching for things that won't help. It is time to keep what is good and throw away the bad.
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