1st Year Teaching

I did not start teaching in August like most teachers, I was hired in the middle of the year and had to jump in running! The students had their routines, their idea of what History was like, and I had to step in and fill in the shoes of their teacher that had to quite unexpectedly! I have been teaching now for 8 weeks and, wow... what a crazy ride it has been! I can totally understand now what people mean when they say that your first year as a teacher, you will just try to survive!! While I am learning a lot every day, new teaching methods and strategies, things that work and things that don't...it can be very overwhelming at times as a first year teacher!