Nerves aren’t exclusive to just students when it comes to the first day of school.
Twenty-three-year-old Sarah DeLong, from Lethbridge, Alta., taught her first-ever class on Tuesday. She said the hours before were no different than her previous 18 first days of school as a student.
“I think the nervousness is coming from the fact that it’s something that I’ve been working a very long time for,” she said.
DeLong recalled telling her Grade 4 class she wanted to become a teacher.
This week marks the beginning of her new journey as a Grade 4/5 teacher at Lethbridge’s Senator Buchanan Elementary School in Lethbridge.
She was greeted with welcome cards in her classroom that she spent the last week prepping and decorating.
“It’s very cool to step in here and realize that it’s my classroom,” DeLong said.
DeLong may have had the first-day jitters, but she wasn’t the only one.
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“I’m probably as nervous today as I was back in the day,” Grade 2 teacher Dawn Steil-Verch said.
Steil-Verch has 11 first days under her belt and said DeLong may have been overthinking it.
“It’s just going to go fast and she’ll probably have planned and planned and she probably won’t need to use it all,” Steil-Verch said. “She’ll have realized at the end of the day she was more worried than she needed to be.”
DeLong began her class with introductions, followed by rules of the room and a colouring activity, and before she knew it, it was time for recess.
“It was a lot of fun,” DeLong said during her first break. “I’m so excited. It feels like there’s just this big weight lifted off of my shoulders.”
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