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| dherrera_96 |
And so begins the trials and tribulations of student teaching. I may be exhausted, but I will reflect here....
A little late, but one from my first placement.
How do you know it is right? You just do.
Actually you don’t, but from each experience with my practicum and
student teaching, I know that this is the right decision. When I left my job at a fashion company, did I cry like a
baby as I took the cross town bus back to my apartment? No.
Did my eyes look like water buckets (they came up with that simile not
me!) today around 3:55? Yes. These past 7 weeks have been such a wonderful
experience. Each day I was happy to wake
up and each afternoon I left the parking lot with a smile on my face. Even days when the students are misbehaving
or I feel the pressure of the TPA, it still feels right. That towel will not be thrown in.
I
by no means am a great teacher, but I know one day I will reach that
summit. Just like my for my students, I
set high expectations with the ideas they can be met. I know that I will one day meet them. I have filled my tool belt with so many great
resources from teaching these past few months.
The strategies will carry me through teaching. I cannot wait to implement them in my own
classroom, hopefully 5th grade.
I know this
experience will stay with me. How could
it now? The students were so great. They made my job so easy. Yes, there were days where they could not
exactly settle down from the excitement.
Yes, there were lessons that met blank stares. Yes, there was subject matter I had no
interest in teaching. Set that aside, I
loved every moment of it. It all felt
right, so right. I am so grateful to
have figured this out, or I would be sitting at my dead end job looking out on
the Hudson adding a zebra tag to a boring crew-neck sweater.
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