One Minute

A day in the life of a teacher:

• Getting ready for school in the morning: 45 minutes
• Traveling to the school: 7 minutes
• Actual teaching time: 200 minutes
• Struggling with students for their attention during that "teaching time": 40 minutes
• Eating lunch: 30 minutes
• Conversing with students during study hall: 20 minutes
• Planning lessons: 50 minutes
• Writing demerits for behavior infractions: 15 minutes
• Helping a struggling student at the end of the day: 30 minutes
• Watching the light finally go off for said student as she finally "got it" and feeling completely validated that, just maybe, I'm doing something right: 1 minute

It's those small moments, those little unexpected minutes, that truly make this job worth doing.

Yeah, despite the chaos leading up to Christmas Break, today was a good day.