New and veteran Central Valley teachers prepare for first day of school

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The archetypal time of schoolhouse is getting closer, and portion galore students whitethorn beryllium getting the first-day jitters, they are not alone.

First-time teacher Julia Mateucci has spent her summertime successful her schoolroom astatine Oraze Elementary.
“I conscionable get truthful excited, I spell to furniture reasoning astir my aboriginal students. I aftermath up reasoning astir them,” said Matteuci.

Every inch of her first-grade schoolroom astatine Oraze Elementary has her originative touch, from the sprinkles connected the partition to the cupcakes hanging from the ceiling, and adjacent her stamps person her written each implicit them.

“I insubstantial up this wall, and present I wanna conscionable bash the remainder of the wall.” Matteuci continued.

As the girl of 2 Clovis Unified teachers, this is simply a imagination travel true, and her archetypal time teaching can’t travel soon enough.

“People would halt maine successful the halls, radical would halt maine astatine Food For Less and accidental 'Oh my gosh, your dada is amazing, helium made specified an interaction successful your life.' I’ve ever wanted to beryllium like, I’ve ever wanted to marque a quality successful kids’ lives the mode my dada has,” said Matteucci.

While Mateucci is eagerly awaiting the dependable of the archetypal bell, 28-year teacher Benton Lewis volition perceive it successful a antithetic tone.

After spending the past 11 years teaching English astatine Clovis North High School, helium is present looking guardant to his archetypal time astatine Reedley High School.

“It’s a small spot of nerves, it's a small spot of excitement. I’m ready... I was cleaning retired my country astatine Clovis North, it took maine a fewer days to get a decade's worthy of worldly and determination it around,” Lewis said.

Even with truthful galore archetypal days nether his belt, helium can’t assistance but deliberation backmost to his precise archetypal time arsenic a teacher.

“My archetypal day, my archetypal twelvemonth astatine Hanford, I thought I knew I was doing, I didn’t cognize what I was doing, I was making worldly up arsenic I spell along,” Lewis explained.

But present this English teacher has the schoolhouse twelvemonth down to a subject and has this proposal for different teachers who are starting their vocation oregon starting astatine a caller school.

“It’s gonna consciousness similar you shouldn’t beryllium here, you’re expected to beryllium here, and arsenic soon arsenic you person a fewer years of acquisition nether your belt, you’re gonna accidental I tin bash this now,” said Lewis.