It is time to join the other teachers.

All the courses have been taken, the student teaching experience has been had and I got a contract with a local high school.  Now what?  That is the question of the moment.  The answer…  Well I don’t know.  I have yet to figure out how I want to setup my room, or create a lesson plan, or anything else productive it seems.  I have bought a lot of stuff though.  I have some posters; an awesome lamp; a really neat desk organizer for my paperclips, rubber bands and push pins; stickers, I have been told that high school students love them; and many other little teaching supplies.  

My head fills with questions…

How do I put a room together?  Where do I put the desks?  How do I create lesson plans that go with C-Scope?  How do I differentiate the Pre-AP classes from the other classes?  What books do I teach?  What short stories?  What activities do I have the students complete?  What clips do I show?  What consequences do I give for misbehaviors?  What about good behavior?  What do I put on my word wall?  How do I make a word wall?  How will I seat the students on the first day of school?  How do I keep track of the work that students that are absent need?  How do I keep up with how far each period got in the lesson or reading?  How do I know the students got the lesson? 

The list is endless!  Every time I open a book to start planning fifteen more pop into my head.  Is there a CD floating around the school that is supposed to go with this text book?  Can I use a YouTube video?  Would these words be good ones for my word wall?  How am I going to set that word wall up?  What about a tree?  What about a board?  Do the words have to be up there all year?  Or can I put them up and down as we go?  Am I going to make copies of these stories or have them use the books?  How do I want them to take notes over these two stories?  Am I going to grade the notes?  Do I give them a hand out to fill out while reading?  Do have them work in groups or individually? 

The most important questions is am I ready for this?  I think I am, but have doubts everyday.  How could I not?  I am being given over a hundred minds to fill.  How can you not have doubts?