Explaining me...

I am a literacy intern for the school district of Philadelphia and that means I am co-teaching. I share a classroom with a vet. teacher who idealy shows me the ropes as I help her manage her classroom of 24 or more students. I am in a second grade classroom in West Philly and right now we have 31 kids. If all goes well I should have 29 by Christmas!!! My class is difficult, mostly because of the boys in the class. They are so defiant. We almost always have fights, children walking out or someone that we have to document for the wrong behavior.

My co-teacher Ms. isn't happy. I can tell because she is always saying "I can't believe you want to be a teacher?" "Are you sure this is what you want to do?" "It'll be worse for you when you have your own classroom". Those things don't bother me but it's the sitting down all day she does that bothers me and the negativity towards the kids.