Teaching I Think I Always Term Paper

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When I looked at my class schedule, by the time music, art, PE, recess, lunch and IEP time was taken up, there were only 50 minutes out of the day when I had all my students in the classroom at the same time -- assuming of course, that no one was absent, but someone was always absent.

Most of my social life got put on hold because I needed my evenings free during the week to do all the week's instruction. About halfway through the school year, I really began to wonder if I was cut out for teaching. It seemed as if it was so much work, and it didn't seem to me that the other teachers put in as much time as I did. To me, that suggested that I might be compensating for some lack of ability.
A call to my old professor put my mind at ease. He told me that it would get easier the next year and pointed out the limits of student teaching in this regard. He assured me that I would become more efficient, and I have, but if there was anything I was not prepared for, it was the tremendous amount of extra time it took to teach my first year as a teacher......

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