Yikes! Due to the way students have signed up for next year's courses, I have been asked to teach Honors Biology (grade 10). Six years ago, I taught an Honors Environmental Earth Science (grade 9) class...the kids were great but the parents were a bit overbearing. Hopefully, the parents of 10th graders won't be so anxious.
I am both nervous and excited. Nervous about the prep that I will need to put into the course (the material is covered much faster and obviously in greater depth than the regular Biology)...excited to have the opportunity to teach the real "Top Guns."
I think I will enjoy this challenge...especially because next year's sophomore class doesn't have the best reputation for academic excellence. I will still see plenty of those kids, as I'll have 3 "regular" level Biology classes to contend with. Maybe the Honors Bio will be a nice break from the complacency of the other groups.
I am sad to lose my spring semester Environmental Biology class next year. I have really come to enjoy that course...especially because a good deal of it is conducted outdoors! But we were short a semester class for me, so there had to be a shift somewhere. I'm so glad it didn't translate into my having to teach Environmental Chemistry again!
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As annoying/demanding/high-strung as my gifted parents were, I loved, loved, loved teaching those kids. I think you will really enjoy it!
It's like you are speaking to me in a Foreign Language. Biology? Chemistry? What? All just a bad, badly taught blur in my highschool experience. The only things I remember about ANY of it are, of course, cutting open a frog, and blowing up a beaker. I retained nothing else. I know YOU, however, are a better teacher so your students will actually learn something.
Congratulations, Sandy! You will do a great job, I'm sure! The kids will be lucky to have you.
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