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Dear jerris

I was a teacher and a substitute teacher for many years, mostly in secondary schools (6-12), very little experience in k-5. I had great difficulty with discipline and never found a way to… successfully deal with it. I observed others who did well in the same classrooms I failed at. What I figure is that the fact that throughout the time I worked I had great difficulties asserting myself outside the classroom. This made it impossible for me to make an exception in the classroom. It takes a LOT of skill to establish and maintain discipline in all the schools I have been in, even one K class was from hell. My suggestion is to take it as an incredible opportunity to practice assertiveness in your private life as well as at work, the two go together. It is similar to a psychotherapist who is afraid of her own emotions and yet trying to help a patient to feel comfortable with his/ her emotions. A good psychotherapist has to do work on herself so to be a good psychotherapist. Same here. Best wishes to you. Write more if you’d like.
anita