Here it comes...

So after Week 1, I had both good and bad feedback about my classes. My Memory English classes (lower mid-level) were pretty good. My head instructor said I am great with them, but I need to pick up the pace. Today (end of Week 2), he comes into my classroom and has a 1 on 1 with me. So he comes in smiling asking if I have checked my e-mails. At this point, I'm thinking he's just being friendly and asking if I wanted to mock teach tomorrow for our workshop. The subject line reads: CCTV Review Week 2. Yikes! So I try to keep myself composed and crack a joke to let him know I'm going to be calm about this. He gives me a few minutes to read over the 3 paragraph e-mail. He apologizes for the length and the tone, but he just wanted to let me know that I am no doing a bad job, but I do need to work on my middle school classes...the dreaded rocks. Apparently, I am not being hard enough of them, yet I'm suppose to try to keep them happy. Oxymoron? These little d'entents just amaze me. I want to be open-minded about the criticism, but it really is hard when you are trying to motivate middle-schoolers who have been school for 10 hours already and then have to endure 3 more hours of you screaming, "CIRCLE THE TRANSITIONS!" Hopefully next week's feedback will be better.