Lead Teacher

On December 1st I became the lead teacher in my 3 year old classroom. This is only until the real lead teacher come back in mid January. Things had been pretty smooth until this point. The lead teacher has over 20 years of experience and was giving me lots of helpful advice. I did not realize how much more it is to be the lead in a classroom. I knew there was lesson plans to be done but just mentally knowing you are the sole person responsible for your room and everything that goes on in it, is a real mental kicker. All those litte things that I did not understand why she did, I do now. They seemed silly at the time but are real life savers now. It is so exciting to get to do it during the holidays but also very stressful. Thankfully I have a great woman assisting me who has great ideas and brings stuff for arts and crafts. I am very grateful to her. I also want to be able to copy all of my lead teacher’s papers to add to my own collection but there is so much that it would be way to expensive to scan and copy it all. Maybe I will just scan it all and copy it to a disk. So I am giving a shout out to all the new teachers out there and to just take it one day at a time. Happy Holidays everyone!