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Confimation and others
By Yvette

Jena,
First take a deep breath and relax. I taught a Catholic School for 3 years before going to a Christian School. You will do just fine. Usually, if you find a mentor teacher in your school to give moral support and
give you ideas it is helpful. Go to your principal and see who he/she suggests. Remember they are there for support and to give ideas. Next..your principal is right...just follow your curriculum. Another idea is to integrate confirmation into a regular religion time so that you don't spend time for other subjects on it. 15 to 20 minutes a day should be good. Next, any areas that you feel

like you are uncertain as to wether or not you will be able to answers questions, ask your local or frequent visiting priests or nuns to come in and speak. They love it and it gets you off the hook. Also, don't be afraid to tell them you don't know but you can find out for them. Remember you don't have all the answers. A line I used to use is " I have my own personal views on that subject...let me find out what the churches view is and we can talk tomorrow." Then go ask about it. So far as managing your work, the first thing I did was to make up a list with all the students for that period or classon. I would use this to immediately check off their homework. Add an inn column and check it off. This is immediate detection and clip it to assignments to keep assignments together and accounted for. Finally, for homework a good rule of thumb is 10 minutes for each grade so 6th graders get 60 minutes, 7th graders 70 minute 8th graders 80 minutes for all subjects. You can do a lot of in class activities that you can check off in class for credit. Have them do a lot of their own correcting and keep your grading simple...just make sure you have a grade a day. Just one. Example: Math today...Science tomorrow...Religion the next etc.
This would be the minimum. You don't have to grade everything you had out an a-ok goes a long way for the student and still lets you know they got the concept. I hope this helped! If you need more e-mail me.