awesome...i did a lot of my 33 years teaching in grade one....i agree that it is very tough, but isn`t it the most rewarding....so much progress from the beg of the year to the end....it was always my favorite year to teach!!!!
Originally Posted by Gerbie
Another retired teacher - You said it Jodie. I have seen this before and really become agitated when people downgrade teachers and so many say it isn't a profession. WRONG it is a profession and without teachers most of the other "successful" people in business or life wouldn't be where they are now without their teachers!!!! We did and have made a difference in every child's life that came through our class. People do not learn through osmosis, they must be taught - to walk, talk, listen and learn!!!
I always took the time very consuming though it were to grade every paper I gave my students. I always felt that if I expected them to complete the work given, they definitely deserved my time to check their work. Over the years I saw toooo many teachers give work to their students, only to throw most of the papers in file 13, because they were toooo lazy to grade or even look at the work.
I taught in several areas, resource, math and reading, 5th grade regular classroom, and finally 1st grade which I considered the toughest of all, but spent my last 21 years of teaching as a first grade teacher. After I retired in 2004, I taught for 5 years as a tutorial math teacher in 4th & 5th grade.