At 12:26 AM 5/14/01 EDT, you wrote:
>I've enjoyed reading the responses to this query. Guess it's called a
thread.
>Yeah, it does get easier with each year, unless you change schools and have
>to adjust to a new "school culture", room situation and have different
budget
>constraints, which happened to me this year. You accumulate lesson plans and
>have samples to show the students which makes it easier to present lessons.
>You know which lessons tend to be more successful, which lessons the
students
>enjoy. But you're always trying new things, making adjustments and learning
>as you go. That includes classroom management. I've been teaching for 6
years
>and am still learning, adjusting and fine-tuning. I once heard a new
>(part-time) teacher say that teaching art was easy. Then I ran into her
>crying in the art department office, totally dejected one day. Teaching art
>is a very difficult endeavor and we put up with a lot, but we do it because
>we love it.
>Dennis in Stockton, CA
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