Tomorrow I am going into the school I will be teaching at to teach a fifth grade English class on staircase poetry and reading poems with punchlines.
And I am very close to petrified.
With 36 rowdy students (as I have observed) whose first language is NOT English, learning from a book with native-English colloquialisms, and taught by a licensed teacher with an American-style of teaching, I wonder how I am going to teach an effective lesson.
This marks the beginning of a very hard journey; am I motivated enough?
Do I not thrive on teaching children as I have discovered in lessons past? Please let that instinct come through.