How was your first day at school?
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Love that joke fidgety.Ah the innocence? of youth.\nDid you hear about the teacher who asked little Billy to put the following words into a sentence to show their meaning?\nAVENUE: Thanks to Mum and Dad,I avenue baby brother.\nDIARRHOEA:When we went on holiday last summer,my dad took one look at the run-down campsite and said:"It's pretty diarrhoea.\nECLIPSE: Every month my dad gets the garden shears and eclipse the hedge.\nFASCINATE:I have nine buttons on my shirt but I can only fascinate.\nAVALANCHE:In our house,we have a breakfast at eight and we always avalanche at 12-30.\nREVEREND:Teacher says if I don't study I'll be in this grade for reverend ever.\nPROPAGATE:Dad knocked down the old wooden fence,so now we've got a propagate.\nNUISANCE:Mum was complaining that she hadn't had anything nuisance she was married.\nJUDICIOUS:On TV adverts,they say that hands that judicious can be soft as your face.\nURINATE:You're great looking,Ma'am-in fact urinate,and if you had bigger boobs.you'd definitely be a ten.
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I think that at least one or two of my professors saw me when I walking around at a party when I was wearing a top that covered less than most bathing suit tops (for the record, there were many people wearing much less than that) and carrying half a bottle of champagne (even though I didn't actually drink any of it).\n\nI was kissed by someone I've never met who was on drugs at the time.\n\nAnd I forgot to turn in a math homework paper that was due three days ago.\n\nBut for the most part, it was a really, really good day.
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My first job was a library. It had opened many doors (surprisingly) and not to mention help me with finding certain books for homework. The people at the library will be more than willing to work with his school schedule.
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I think it should depend how long you've been there, if its your first few days, sure go and ask your teacher
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I was 9 years old and at school when I got my first period.
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Worst was in college.\nI had 5 courses (19 credits total - four 4-credit courses, one 3-credit course).  Each course had a paper due, midterm test to take, and major project due...all within 3 days of each other.  One paper was a 30-pager!\nWell, there was only so much I could do early...each other week had its own projects.\nSo, from Tuesday at 7am when I woke, I began...and did not stop until Friday at 3pm.  No sleep, no resting.  All work.\nI wrote, studied, wrote, finalized projects, wrote, and wrote some more.  It was hard, but I buckled down and did the work.\nIn the end, I passed everything with a B or better...which I consider a HUGE success.\nAt 3pm on Friday, I made it to my room, and collapsed.  My roommate's girlfriend was nice enough to take my backpack and boots off of me, and pull the blanket over my already-snoring body.\n\nI awoke on Sunday.  lol\n\nGood luck!
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Try to stay calm.  Most of us felt that way on our first day of teaching.  On my first day of real teaching I was 17 years old and I stood in front of a class of 43 kids and wondered what on earth I was supposed to do.\n\nYour feelings of nervousness will go away as the days pass and  you see that you can do this.  The fear that you feel is normal, and will actually make you better at your job, because it will make you prepare your classes well.  That is key - be well prepared.  Teach your lesson and get the kids involved in asking questions and you will find out what you did well and what wasn't explained clearly enough.    Try to have a little humor in your classes, but not to the extreme.  Try to "read" your class, and if it will work let them know you are nervous and would appreciate it if they let you know when they don't understand something.\n\nWe all had to start somewhere, and we all learned as we went along.  Take it one day at a time, and at the end of everyday review in you rmind what went well, and what went not so well.  Find a teacher on staff that you can talk to.  If you run into big trouble, get help - don't let it fester.  Be fair in your classes, and the kids will recognize and respect that.\n\nIf I can help in any other way, feel free to contact me through this site.\n\nIt will all be ok.
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It depends on who you ask and how their week went.  Check the answers that are posted during the weekend as opposed to during the school week, lol.  :)  \n\nI've been teaching for 3 years and still love it.  There are all sorts of trying days and all sorts of really difficult people to have to work with, for, around, etc.  Reaching children on a personal level makes it all worthwhile.  So do the daily hugs that some students must give you in order to get their day started off right.  With education in the US, there's all sorts of stupid politics and ridiculous testing mandates that can quickly suck the life out of a person.  It's important not to get bogged down.  Not taking your work home with you will help.  I personally love teaching elementary school, but there are days when I long for a classroom full of thoughtful middle schoolers who can have more engaging conversations about the world (assuming such a class exists).  I couldn't handle high schoolers.  My husband is great with them.  They just frustrate me because I know they're about to go out into the work force for good.  \nOverall though, it's fulfilling to the people who put into it what they expect to get out of it.  Best wishes!
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Well I was on both sides. Being a day student isn't too bad at all. I always hung out at my boarding school on weekends with my friends that lived at the school. I lived close to the school so it was easy....Then I was a boarder at a boarding school and I liked that a little better being away from home and living with my friends...frequently my day student friend would stay over some times which was a nice treat for them
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i know how you feel-speaking from a newly highschooler.  Just hang in there, you only got a few days left before summer, then you'll have a new teacher next year.  So put a smile on and count the days till your last day of english and history.  it will be hard but the last day will be awesome!  =]
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Welcome to the profession!\n\nFirst, if your district does not assign mentors for first year teachers, ask your principal to recommend someone in your building that is experienced, friendly, and has excellent classroom management skills. Plan to have regular observations, both him/her observing your room, and you observing theirs, and discussions with them about it.\nSecond, get to know your specialists...ELL teachers, special ed teachers, music/art/PE/library teachers, etc. Be aware of their strengths, and turn to them when planning for and developing instructional strategies for students in your class.\nThird, avoid "clique" participation. Stay open and friendly, as much as you can, with all staff, but stay away from becoming a part of any small sub-group, especially gossipy groups.\nFinally, have detailed plans way ahead of time, and then expect to change those plans daily. Having the overall structure in place ahead of time gives you a scaffold from which to do your daily adjustments.\n\nClassroom management is 90% of the success of your classroom. Set clear, simple rules and consequences, and be firm, inflexible, and fair in implementing those rules and consequences. Plan and practice classroom routine the first couple of days (what do you want your kids to do, step by step, when they need to sharpen a pencil, use the bathroom, get a drink of water, finish their work, etc., etc.).\n\nGood luck!
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8) Most my social interaction came from the classes I took on a public school campus. I even found some great Christian friends who lived really close. One of them is over at my house almost every day (or vice versa)\n\n10) When I was in 6th grade my mom sent me to a public school for elective courses. The school was very accepting me and I even found a couple of other people who were homeschool there too.\n\n11) I loved the proximity to home. Every year my mom would ask me if I still wanted to be homeschooled and every year I said yes.\n\n12) I never had a lot of friends my age till I started taking classes on a public campus.\n\n13) No. I had a very well rounded education, that went along with the public's but even went into our religious aspect of it. \n\n13) Most places these days are very accepting to homeschoolers. It's even said that homeschoolers have a higher education.\n\n14) Definitely. But, like my mom, I might send them to a public campus for just a couple of classes.\n\n15) Washington.
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Mine was in fifth grade, a good ol' green screen and floppy discs.  It was the only computer in the school and it only had a math game installed on it.
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I was up watching with the whole family. The kids missed school, Lucky it was my day off.\nWe were all on the edge of our seats. \nDam proud to be an Aussie.\nWasn't the score we wanted but were still in it.\nKeeping the dream alive..............................................
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My first semester of college I nearly went insane. I was sick all the time, I was scared to meet new people, and it seemed like everyone else was a genius compared to me. My chemistry class is was kept me sane. \n\nIt helped that it was smaller (60-70 people.) It was still twice the size of my high school classes, but less than half the size of a normal lecture at my college. The professor was GREAT. He was the first professor to learn my name, or even seem to care that I, as an individual, understood the material. AT the time, it was a big deal. He was also a great teacher in general. He liked to do demonstrations and involve the students in them. \n\nMost importantly, for whatever reason, I ended up becoming friends with a lot of people in that class. Nerds are drawn to one another, perhaps? I'm not sure what I would have done without it.
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on first day!!!!!!!!!!!
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Check out:  First Day of School by Harry Wong\nFred Jones' material (I forgot the name)\nTeaching with Love and Logic\nThey all have websites.