Teaching

          When I finished CCD and got confirmed 3 years ago, I could not have been happier to be done with my religious education classes. Today, I am in my second year as a teacher of 7th grade CCD. If my 10th grade self knew that, he would be very confused. My motivation for volunteering was to get my leadership roles and some community service hours to get into National Honors Society and that mission has now been accomplished. I always knew that teaching middle schoolers must be hard, but now I know it first hand.  Also, I am suprised that every kid in my class for the past two years has had an Iphone that they use constantly. I know that constantly being on your phone is not unique to a seventh grader, but I would have never been trusted with such an expensive phone. I had a phone with a sliding keyboard at that age and I was lucky to even have that. A lot of 12 year olds did not have phones at all. Last year, my plan each class was to simply read the section of the book I should be on and survive as the clock ticks ever so slowly. That rarely happened. Absolutely no one would listen, they would use their phones, they would always be fighting with eachother and do anything to make it difficult on me. This year, I feel like I am doing a much better job at keeping the kids engaged, but I think it is because I just got lucky and got to teach some better kids. Even so, they have their issues, and I have a new respect for my teachers back at Parker.