Its a good feeling when....

your principal comes to you and excitedly tells you that our MAP testing scores in math (for the 2nd test) have gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year (when they took the first test). MAP Testing is testing our students do beginning, middle and end of the year. And think, there are days that I look back at the day or a class and think "did they learn anything today". Its days like that when I wonder if I really should be a teacher. Days when nothing you do seems to get through to the students and you feel nothing but frustration. But, today - today is one of those days that reiterates the fact that Im pretty darn good at what I do. Then I think about the frustration days, and remind myselves that at a "regular" high school, they probably wouldnt even be coming to school at all, much less my class.