My first classroom

My first “teaching job” will not be in a one teacher classroom with four walls. I won’t have spent hours decorating the walls and creating bulletin boards. If it rains, we won’t have class. I won’t have to worry about offending a parent or about some piece of technology not working.
My first class will have a group of students with a great need for knowledge, it will have students ranging from probably 8 to 18, and it excites me beyond belief.
The school is switching to subject teaching where different teachers teach different subjects to different grades so I’ll be moving to and from different classes. They are making this switch so that they can add a JSS 1 (like junior high) class to the school which for now is going to meet in the chicken coop since there is only one chicken.
I am loving getting to know the kids and doing different activities, games and outings with them, but as I begin to plan for the school year I realize how much I like teaching and how important I see education as being. I see all the information I want to impart to these students and visualize ways I can convey those things. Many of the kids here are very far behind in their schooling due to many different things. I want to be able to help these students, and the school, make great strides this year.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the short time I’ve been here it is that I shouldn’t expect anything to go as I plan, so we’ll see what God has in store for the school year and what happens come Monday, but I’m praying we will be able to help these kids get a good education and solid biblical background to hopefully build a brighter future for them, and that we will be able to help push the academy forward and raise the standards they set for the teachers and students.