My thoughts on this are suspended. I was scared out of my mind on Monday when I had to met with my cooperating teacher for the first time.
My boyfriend shared some wisdom with me and I am just going to take the experience as it comes and try to learn as much as I can from it. Another goal is to put forth my maximum effort; because I don't always do this and I need to in order to know if teaching is right for me.
I have to start a daily journal. I think i will post some if not all of my reflections on here.
The class I will be in is a kindergarten classroom in a local school. It takes me about 5 minutes to get there so I am glad of this because of my problems waking up. I have swore to be early every day. I have to be at the school 8am-4pm. This is something I'm scared of too.
The class is in a school which has a grant that lowers class sizes (yay!) but does so because of the poverty in the area. Should be interesting. Also have heard there are a lot of special needs in the class. The teacher also said this is her best behaved class in 20 years. This I have to take with a grain of salt as I'm sure it won't be smooth sailing.
The cooperating teaching is a very nice woman who says she doesn't allow lateness or absence, but said she was willing to work with me on parts of the class I will take over if I am not ready for them. She presented me with a binder of information saying "welcome miss B" on the front. It really did make me feel welcome!
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