Lessons Learned... --Ongoing & Edited!!

In case you hadn't noticed, I am a classic "List Person." Especially when things start being pretty unstructured (which, life usually is...especially MY life, it would seem), my journals take the form of lists, more or less. Not the boring kind, for the most part-- just a way I organize my thoughts, try to find themes, or just get the clutter of things I'm trying to remember OUT onto paper, so I can free up some diskspace up there. Hehehe, I crack myself up with all my lists.

Anyway, this is one that makes a lot of sense, and that I'm sure many of my readers can identify with and add to.

Things I've Learned as a First-Year Teacher...

- all solemn men in paintings are presidents. Most likely George Washington.

- glue guns and Post-it Notes are your friends

- the floors in primary classrooms are tile for a reason: summed up in one word, "moppable"

- the inventor of the laminating machine is worthy of a Nobel Prize

- they're always watching. Always.

- they always copy you. Especially when you hope they WEREN'T watching

- love the secretary and janitor. They are very important Friends to have.

- your first name is "Miss"
- Squidward plays the clarinet
- explosions and natural disasters are the best motivators for boys starting in 4th grade. maybe before...

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**Edit**

This is from my friend & classmate Mary Margaret Hart, who worked as a preschool teacher at the Smithsonian over the summer. She said that in the "teacher bathroom" (aka the one with a big potty) there was a little tackboard with funny quotes and such, and this list appeared last week.

Requirements for Teachers (1915)

Teachers May Not:

Be in the company of men

Get married durring contract

Be out between the hours of 8pm and 7am

Go on more than one date per week (unless you attend church, in which case you can go on 2)

Partake in questionable behavior

Loiter in downtown icecream shops

WEAR BRIGHTLY COLORED CLOTHING!!!!

Teachers Must:

Sweep the floors every day

Wash the floors once a week

Wear hair up in a tight bun

Wear at least 2 petticoats