New Hired Teacher Thoughts

Ahhhh! I got a job, at the school I wanted, teaching what I wanted to teach!! Yay!!

So of course we do a little happy dance! Go shorty, go go go, go shorty!

Days and weeks of excitement ensue...then one day, a thought pops into your head: "What if my kids don't like me?" and then here come all those other questions, "What if I'm a bad teacher?", "What if my kids fail the first test?", "What if my kids fail every test?", "How do I know what to teach them and how to get it best across to them?", and on and on. And so you are now as worried as you are excited. And you get text messages from your friends that look like the one below and you feel a little better because they are having the same thoughts!

(Side note, yes her name is Jessica and my name is Jessica.

We don't get confused, just everyone around us!)

BUT, you stop for a moment and remind yourself that you wouldn't have survived student teaching if you weren't good at teaching; you wouldn't have gotten the exact job you wanted if they didn't believe in you and that God wouldn't have given you the opportunity if it wasn't the place He wanted you to be! And you're happy again! Pheww, thank goodness that's over!

So, to all my other brand new teacher friends:

Are you worried? Excited? Nervous? Frantic?

And for my southern friends:

 Feel like a chicken with your head cut off? A fish out of water? A sheep without a shepherd?

All I have to say is Let Go and Let God! If you weren't supposed to be where you are, you wouldn't be. If you weren't supposed to be a teacher, you wouldn't be. And if you weren't going to be the best YOU that YOU can be, God would have steered you in a different direction. So, let's all just take a breather for the next week or two, because once August hits, you can bet you won't even have the time for the evil thoughts to break through!

He caused the storm to be still, so that the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they were quiet, so He guided them to their desired haven.

~ Psalm 107:29-30 ~

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Have any questions or feelings you want to add as a brand new teacher? Or any advice from the veterans to help us rookies feel ok?! Let me in the comments below!