While I am really excited to be starting a new position tomorrow, I am feeling really guilty about leaving my students and co-workers behind. In order to ease some of the transition for my students and the new teacher who should be coming into my position, I have been trying to leave things in place for them. I put together portfolios for my students with their work from math, writing and reading. I explained the portfolios to the students and the paraprofessional so they would be able to share that information with their new teacher.
I am also not the type of person to leave someone else in a bad place, so I've put a lot of pressure on myself (as you can see from my todo list above) to leave everything pretty much done and set up for whoever comes into my position. I even made a binder with unit guides, and all the information the new teacher will need. I truly hope this will help make the transition for my students as easy as possible.