This year has been the most difficult here in Chesterfield. I teach a collaborative 4th grade class at Swift Creek Elementary School. I have 27 students in a trailer: it isn't a "learning cottage," it's an old trailer! We started the year with ants in the walls, the door was broken two times this year, and the tiles are popping off.
I have too many children in my class for each to get what he or she needs. It takes so long to grade writing papers or any other assignments for that matter. I have a very "high needs" group of students; I must answer 200 questions per day, always working with small groups or one-on-one. I am very tired!
We are wall-to-wall kids, and I feel that I am not being as effective with the large number of students. I can not help them like I did last year and that frustrates me. I keep trying to do even more, but I can't, and so I go home mentally spent.
The technology I have in the trailer is so behind the rest of the world. Help!!!
~Nancy Rader
Veteran 4th Grade Teacher,
Swift Creek Elementary School
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