Things to Start

Again, I plan on starting a few more things next year- a better procedure for note taking and a more organized process for make-up work when students are absent. I know that I should be more strict in some areas, and lighten up on other issues- these are fluid things that (they say) you develop with experience as a teacher. (In my head, I'm still laughing at my words while writing this- who would have thought that I could become a teacher???) Anyway, here are some

Things to Start:

• a family
• you should sell your brownies next year
• getting after people that skip
• playing music during assignments
• being strict to people who are not willing to pay attention to you 
• selling more candies [for fundraisers for organizations I sponsor] 
• your new dream job
• give us a Blizzard if we get a 100 on a test, for example on the 6-weeks tests
• next year (duh)
• showing math videos
• teaching your way of teaching to M___. ___________. (another teacher in our hallway! yikes!) 
• putting us in groups
• teaching us in groups based on what we need
• help more kids
• speaking more Spanish!
• speaking English
• playing games often
• cheer them up before you take a test or start a lesson
• you should start selling your homemade cookies
• playing more cards
• being more happy
• selling cheesecakes
• sending Artemio to walk [when students say a bad word, they have to
  "take a walk" to the end of the hallway and back- it gets them moving & gives everybody a chance to cool off in case they offended someone] 
• by not giving homework
• giving out prizes
• being more awesome
• cussing [no, not gonna happen!]
• a walk out [why? these kids are hilarious.]
• make the class shorter
• keeping games to play when we finish our work
• bringing us ice cream
• start being aware of Enrique (future student's name- had a girl warn me that her cousin will be in 9th grade next year!)
• being mean
• scream

I think I'll take some of these with a grain of salt!