First Week Update!

I have survived my first 3 days of student teaching. Yay!  So far it has been just like my field experience except I am there all day long.  I really love my cooperating teacher.  She is a great teacher and has a lot of insight that is different then a lot of things I have seen or heard.  I am learning a lot already from her.  I am still anxious and nervous for whenever I start teaching lessons and getting more involved but it has been fun getting to know the students the past few days.  I know I just need to be confident in myself but it is so hard whenever I don't have much experience.  On one hand I just want to jump in and get going so I can stop being anxious about it but on the other hand it is great putting it off longer.  :P

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The class has some very challenging students but that is kind of great to have a more difficult class for student teaching because it will give me good experience for my first year of teaching.  One interesting thing about the classroom too is that the student all sit on athletic balls.  You know the big bouncy ones that are good for working out.  I was overwhelmed by it the first couple of days because the kids were just bouncing up and down ALL day.  But they are starting to get back into the routine from winter break and they are suppose to have both feet on the ground and not bounce during class.  I was getting so annoyed by the bouncing the last two days and then today I sat on one and didn't even realize until a couple of minutes later that I was bouncing.  I had to laugh at myself about that.

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Tomorrow morning I am sitting down with my cooperating teacher to set a schedule about what I will be teaching and when.  Hopefully we will really ease into it this first 8 weeks.  I am really interested to see how it goes.

Thanks for reading,
Mrs. Utt :)