Most of the days that I would say were bad have started with some craziness in my third period class. I have a hard time dealing with some of my tough students in that class. It's basically a tie between the day of "The Incident" (That's seriously how my students refer to the class) where a students nearly got into a physical fight in class (Oh and I had my formal observation the next period.) and Thursday when that tricky third period class gave me way too much attitude and then a sixth grader essentially called me trash at the end of class. It's been crazy trying to understand how students could think any of this stuff is acceptable to do at school and I am totally lost about how to solve some of these issues.
On both of these days I do not think I used good self care to recover. This was nearly impossible on Thursday because I had conferences from the time school ended that lasted until six. The other day happened during that week that I had to write my literature review and was totally overwhelmed by the work I had to do. Ideally, I would like to do things differently next time. One thing that always helps me to think things over and relax is running up something really steep. On a day day, I should just put my shoes on at 3:45 and take off. There are some nice switch backy trails to run right by Miller! Doing this would help me to reflect on things that I can do to avoid getting into these hairy situations and ways to help the students to stop being so mean. I've noticed that the weeks where I get outside, talk to friends, and take some time for me are the best weeks. I come up with all sorts of good ideas for lessons and projects and just feel happier. The worst weeks are the ones where I don't get any exersize or talk to people I care about.
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