A student asked me today if I teach anything else besides Health. "I use to teach Life Skills too but I haven't done that for about 2 years.""Does it get boring, the same lesson all day? "No because each class is different, each class kind of has its own personality." Here's an example, a fun one. I end my day with a period 6 composed of seven boys and thirty-five girls! Yup, that's a 5:1 ratio of girls to boys. How that happened I am not sure but maybe 10 of the girls are on the volleyball team and this is the off-season so instead of Period 6 volleyball, now period 6 HEALTH! But I digress. 
Yesterday, in that same period 6 GIRL CLASS we watched a scene from a movie that had an alcoholic couple. When the guy proposed romantically to the girl, when the wedding ring appeared there was an incredibly loud "awww ...".
It never gets boring. Same lesson but different students means interest and challenge. My period 3 has only 34 students but I have 4 that do not understand any English, none, nada, zip! It's the same lesson but I have to s l o w d o w n m y s p e e c h and skip some details for them to communicate the bigger picture. (It's also about finding other kids in class to help them translate until I can get an adult bi-lingual aide in here but that's a blog for another time.)
I am glad it never gets boring. If you get bored at your job it's time to find another career.
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