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It’s Wednesday!!! Spring break countdown has reached 3 days! 🎉 And the temperature here has dropped 20 degrees overnight. 🥶 New teacher note #3: Be the reason your kids come to school. If you take the time to build relationships with your students they will be excited to come to school and they will be excited by things that your are excited about. My school is located in an area that is surrounded by expensive houses but also is in the lines for weekly housing. I have come across some students with some truly heartbreaking stories this year. Some of those students have also come with some extreme behaviors. But I soon realized, the ones with the stronger behaviors, where a good day was if they didn’t hit anyone else, also needed the most love and support because they weren’t necessarily getting it at home. I realized my time with them was precious because they were also the transient students who would move at a moments notice. I wanted to make the biggest, positive impact in that child’s life I could because I didn’t know how long I’d get the chance. I was not expecting some of these heartbreaking stories and behaviors in first grade. A lot of my first days with one particular child were extremely difficult. He would hit others students during any sort of disagreement. It took a lot of trial and error and it definitely wasn’t perfect but we worked together on his impulsive behaviors so when he was getting angry he would come talk to me. He became my helper for while but when there were times I couldn’t give him my full attention, he would then resort to self harm; punching himself in the head and slamming it against the wall. He had good days and occasionally a good week but it was easy to see that his more difficult days were the days that school was a better place to be than home. By the time he moved, I was torn emotionally because selfishly I knew teaching in my classroom would be easier but also extremely sad because I had seen so much progress and wanted to keep helping him move forward. I can only hope that I brought some positivity into his world in the relatively short time he was in mine.

It’s Wednesday!!! Spring break countdown has reached 3 days! 🎉 And the temperature here has dropped 20 degrees overnight. 🥶 New teacher note #3: Be the reason your kids come to school. If you take the time to build relationships with your students they will be excited to come to school and they will be excited by things that your are excited about. My school is located in an area that is surrounded by expensive houses but also is in the lines for weekly housing. I have come across some students with some truly heartbreaking stories this year. Some of those students have also come with some extreme behaviors. But I soon realized, the ones with the stronger behaviors, where a good day was if they didn’t hit anyone else, also needed the most love and support because they weren’t necessarily getting it at home. I realized my time with them was precious because they were also the transient students who would move at a moments notice. I wanted to make the biggest, positive impact in that child’s life I could because I didn’t know how long I’d get the chance. I was not expecting some of these heartbreaking stories and behaviors in first grade. A lot of my first days with one particular child were extremely difficult. He would hit others students during any sort of disagreement. It took a lot of trial and error and it definitely wasn’t perfect but we worked together on his impulsive behaviors so when he was getting angry he would come talk to me. He became my helper for while but when there were times I couldn’t give him my full attention, he would then resort to self harm; punching himself in the head and slamming it against the wall. He had good days and occasionally a good week but it was easy to see that his more difficult days were the days that school was a better place to be than home. By the time he moved, I was torn emotionally because selfishly I knew teaching in my classroom would be easier but also extremely sad because I had seen so much progress and wanted to keep helping him move forward. I can only hope that I brought some positivity into his world in the relatively short time he was in mine.

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