 I feel that jobs are a mandatory responsibility for our students in our classroom. I tell them the very first day of school, welcome to the first day of your work for the year. We're at our job every time that we come to school. So my job is to be the best teacher I can be and their job is to be the best student. But I also give them each a job for an entire week. Now when I first started teaching, I thought it was important to have a light helper and a line leader and a door holder and maybe the caboose who stands at the end of the line. But as my experience has gone forward, I have found that every child thrives off having responsibility every day. So I have 14 children this year and I have 14 jobs. I changed those jobs weekly, but now my jobs have expanded to a calendar helper, a meteorologist, a snack helper, an electrician. I like to use the whole word and they thrive off using big words. I have a job even for watering plants and a job to do every little thing, my favorite teacher assistant, they will do anything for me. But everything that I can think of throughout the day that I might need a little bit of assistance with and the kids just love having that responsibility, they take pride in it and enjoy being a part of our school family.