I waited over 20 years to become a teacher, and when I finally did, I ended up being a public school middle school teacher. I am hoping that my insights on this interesting often turbulent time in lives of our youth may offer some hope and comfort to parents and the general public that our futures may be fairly secure after all.
The 2007-2008 school year was my first foray in the world of public school teaching. My husband had been teaching at the middle school level for over 12 years, and I had a son in 7th grade, so the concept of middle school was not foreign to me, but I really did not know what "being in the trenches" would be like. I also was coming in as a Language Arts teacher- a subject that is definitely not dear to the majority of middle schoolers. Not only an Language Arts teacher, but an 8th grade Language Arts teacher with the attendant pressures of the state writing test to get the students through.
The reflections I will offer about last year and this year I hope will be humorous for most, and reassuring for some. Overall I discovered that middle schoolers are people too, and it is very important to remember that even though they are in a state of perpetual flux, most of them will come out on the other side as pretty good, solid people!
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