Blog 01: It’s Happening!
It’s happening! I’m doing a thing! I’ve thought about it since quarantine started in March, but I’m finally doing it! I’m going to start a blog! I went back and forth or whether to blog or maybe make an instagram page dedicated to teaching, but I’ve settled on a blog! Maybe people will read, maybe not, but I hope you do!
For anyone who doesn’t know me, I’m Bailey but my friends call me Bay! I currently teach 8th grade US History in Houston, TX. This year is my third year teaching and i absolutely love it. I’ve known since I was in the second grade that I wanted to be a teacher. I would line all my stuffed animals up in a row and teach them how to add or spell. I had SO much support from all of my teachers growing up that they all really inspired me to become a teacher (but HUGE shout out to Mrs. Greek, Mrs. Birtwistle, Mr. Gigliotti, Mr. Brownson, and Mrs. Darroh). I thought for the longest time that I would be a math teacher, but then I took a college math class (insert terrified emoji face). It really made me panic because for so long I thought I would do this one thing. I started realizing though how much fun I was having in my history classes, and how much I really enjoyed learning about the past or even writing about it! So I switched my major to history and like the saying goes, the rest was literally history!
I graduated from A&M (whoop!) with my degree in history in 2018, but stayed at A&M for another summer to start my masters program! I graduated with my masters in 2019, and who knows what’s next! Maybe a doctorate!
But that’s me! And here’s my blog!
I hope that within this blog maybe I can help some struggling teacher, because believe me you are not alone. There is a weight on our shoulders as educators that feels almost impossible to describe. We have to be teacher, nurse, advocate, super hero, magician, EVERYTHING. We have the weight of our anxiety, students anxiety, parents fears or worry, and we are working with very little information. We see it everywhere on social media about the “uncertainty” and the “unknown” which then adds more stress to us because we really don’t know what the next week will look like. Will face to face work? Will we have to shut down again? If we do, what will that look like? Even typing that out I could feel my stress levels rising. But I think one thing we can all agree on, is that in these crazy times it’s really brought us all together and made us question how we really teach.
Which is why I started thinking about what I could do to help other teachers. I thought that I could use this blog to give tips and tricks, and create a community where we all support one another!
I hope that you return for my next post, and know how awesome you are!
- Bay :-)
PS - I am not an ELA teacher, so if there are grammatical errors I sincerely apologize, and run on sentences because I type the way I talk! Really hurt me in college essays. Oops.
