August 25, 2010 (25/08/2010)
I am very happy, but overwhelmed.... I guess that is how you could describe how I am feeling at the moment. It is a good feeling, but stressful nonetheless. The last two days we have had "teacher time" to prepare our classes and listen to lectures about the merit system, pastoral care, etc. The merit system is a behaviour system where teachers deduct merits for a variety of things. I will post a picture of what can take away merits. It is quite involved and I just hope that I can catch on pretty quickly.
I will be teaching years 8,9,and 10 which is the U.S. is 6th, 7th and 8th grade. I will be teaching each grade Geography. I will also have year 8 and 9 History and a class called "Leisure and Tourism". I have a "form class", which is the same as "X-block" or "homeroom", but we meet an hour a week to do activities similar to STS. This means that I have about 7 DIFFERENT classes to teach, with different curriculum and different levels. It is so exciting to me to teach new material, but it is also what is making me stressed :) I am the type of teacher though that likes a challenge. I will have to talk to Mr. McTague and Mrs. Cosentino to get ideas for the geography classes. Weathering, earthquakes and volcanoes are just some of the topics that I will be covering.
For the last few days I have been making posters for the room, especially on the 5 themes of geography. There are a few topics that I taught at NBJH that I will also teach at Priory, like the Renaissance, primary and secondary sources, timelines etc.
Well, I should go back to preparing for the classes. By now you all have started school at NBJH. We will begin in a week.
Cheerio!
Ms. Yuhas Stetka
Outside Priory Integrated College (It's like a junior high and high school combined.)
This was the day that I walked to my new school.
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