updated 7/10* Are the kids pretty well behaved?
Generally yes. If you’re comfortable and confident with kids, you’ll do great. (I wrote that during my third month teaching. Later, I discovered that you don’t want to be too comfortable, or else the kids will walk over you. Call yourself Mr. Alex or Ms. Britney Spears. Show some degree of authority. You’re not their buddy!) That’s what it’s all about: veing comfortable and confident to the point where you can have fun but still be stern when you need to be, and also, where you can adjust to the personalities of different classes. I figure it’s a thing you can improve on, but I also feel, in my opinion, it’s something some people just have and others just…don’t. But versus the horror stories I hear from Teach for Americaers, this job is a dream. Most kids are very sweet and eager to learn, and the ones that aren’t…the worst they do is talk alot and be a tad disrespectful. (This is not uniform. I cannot guarantee that one of your students will not be a little devil.) But with those
