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Me too
By 'nother New teacher

I was looking up info on teaching philosophy for my Master's class when I came across this board. I graduated in Dec This year and started teaching my own class when the students came back Jan 7th I was student teaching
at this school before I graduated and really like this school but I don't feel as if I am doing a good job. Teaching is nothing like I thought it would be and I am feeling very much overwhelmed. I go in at 645 am and normally leave around 5 pm, I am feeling burnt out. I don't have a problem making lesson plans but in my 2nd grade class I feel as if I have very little control. I recieved

my class as part of a class reduction program and the other teacher's picked the students I would get.

Some of my students are very sweet and I truely love each and every one of them, I just am not sure that I am doing right by them, and feela s if I am becoming exactly the kind of teacher that I do not want to be. A yeller. I just can not seem to get through their constant talking without raising my voice, and I hate that. They have been in second grade since september but constantly ask inapprpriate questions when I am trying to talk.

I know that I have gotten kind of off track but I did want to let you know that you are not alone, I also don't know if I am cut out for this, when I go home each night and want to cry because I am not the kind of teacher I want to be.