Aug
22
What is up with start of school dreams? Every year near the end of summer I begin to have a series of nightmares about the start of school. Sometimes it is the first day and everyone is ready except for me. The principal calls and asks, “Where are you? The kids are waiting.” Sometimes I’m taking a new teaching job and somehow missed out on all the meetings so everyone else knows what is happening except for me. Every time I am unprepared in one way or another for the start of school. I often wake up from these nightmares jumping out of bed frantically running for the shower to get to school on time - only to find that it is still summer. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just a sign of my “control-freak” nature? Even though I’ve been out of the public school classroom for a while, I still keep having these dreams and my husband tells me that I teach in my sleep. What’s that all about? What do you dream about when you dream about school? I’d love to hear it!
I just loved these items–really describes the teaching situation as it is. Even though there is plenty of realism and sarcasm in these blogs, I sense that the writers, as do I, still enjoy teaching. Otherwise, we would not still be do it for 30 + years!
Hello. I just wanted to tell you that I’m really enjoying reading your blog. I can identify with this post about dreams even though I’m currently only a student teacher. I have dreamed that I was late for school, that I thought it was Saturday and didn’t go only to wake up late and learn it was a weekday, and that I’ve gone to school and left all my materials at home. I constantly dream about the students, how I’m going to teach them the next day and different ways I should present a lesson. I feel like I’m always in school, even in my dreams! I’ve wondered if it’s going to be this way forever. I guess I’ve gotten my answer that what consumes me during the day will also always consume me during the night.