I have officially been placed for my first 8 weeks of student teaching! :) Want to know the best part about it? The school is walking distance from my apartment! Talk about awesome. I am really excited to get started now that I know where I will be. My first day will be January 9th and I will be in a 4th grade classroom.
Until then I plan to enjoy my Christmas break with my family and friends and most importantly my amazingly loving and handsome husband. :)
God Bless!
More updates to come as my interesting journey of student teaching begins.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Mixed Feelings..
My second to last semester of college is wrapping up. I am filled with excitement as I turn in my final projects and prepare for the Christmas season!! It is hard to believe that I will begin student teaching in only a month. For those who do not know the process I will spend 8 weeks at one school and 8 weeks at another school. At the moment it is confirmed which school I will be at the second 8 weeks but I am still waiting to hear about my first placement. I am praying I will find out this week so I won't have to start worrying about it...(tee-hee).
As far as my mixed feelings...I am anxious and excited to finally have a "real" classroom to teach in and not have to think anymore about my hypothetical classroom of students. Education majors you understand what I am talking about. I am also feeling extremely nervous and unprepared for what is ahead. I know I have been going to school the last 4 years to do this but I still know there are going to be so many real life situations and challenges that school just cannot prepare me for.
The thing I am most nervous about as I look ahead is balancing my life. I will have student teaching which is basically a full-time unpaid job. I will have my job at chick-fil-a to work and I am not sure what my availability is going to be like at this point or how many hours I will be able to handle. I unfortunately will have one online class the first 8 weeks and one night class the second 8 weeks to keep up on. Then lastly. the dreaded. portfolio. I feel like I will never be able to finish that thing. I am praying that throughout the semester I will continually work on it but I just know how unlikely that is and I know it will be like every other assignment where I try to cram it all in the week or night before it is due.
As far as my mixed feelings...I am anxious and excited to finally have a "real" classroom to teach in and not have to think anymore about my hypothetical classroom of students. Education majors you understand what I am talking about. I am also feeling extremely nervous and unprepared for what is ahead. I know I have been going to school the last 4 years to do this but I still know there are going to be so many real life situations and challenges that school just cannot prepare me for.
The thing I am most nervous about as I look ahead is balancing my life. I will have student teaching which is basically a full-time unpaid job. I will have my job at chick-fil-a to work and I am not sure what my availability is going to be like at this point or how many hours I will be able to handle. I unfortunately will have one online class the first 8 weeks and one night class the second 8 weeks to keep up on. Then lastly. the dreaded. portfolio. I feel like I will never be able to finish that thing. I am praying that throughout the semester I will continually work on it but I just know how unlikely that is and I know it will be like every other assignment where I try to cram it all in the week or night before it is due.
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