A Twist in my Journey

This week has been a rough one.  I was home sick from school a couple of days, and when I came back to the school I found out that I won't be working with my cooperating teacher anymore.  Things just weren't going to work out.  I was extremely upset as you can imagine.  I've spent the last 2 months getting to know these students and now I was out of a classroom again.  There will be a plus side though.  I'm going to be getting out of an environment that was full of tension and where I was not ever feeling good enough.  I loved the students and am disappointed that things have turned out this way, but overall I think my mental health will improve immensely for the last 3 weeks of my trip. 

 

I'm going to be observing in several classrooms where I can see the higher and lower level math classes, as well as some science lessons.  Along with those, I'll be visiting some regular classrooms. It's great to move around for the fact that I'll get to see many different methods of teaching and behavior management. 

 

Today (after the initially heartbreaking news), I was placed in a classroom with a woman whose teaching style is different than my original CT.  They are both wonderful teachers, but do so with vastly different methods. 

 

I was lucky to be able to share some things about myself and my family with the class.  My grandparents Skyped the class from Times Square in NYC! You can imagine the excitement from these students and the teacher that they could virtually see Times Squares first person from halfway around the world! It was a great experience and I'm so glad that my family and I were able to bring such joy to that classroom. 

 

Again, it is so important for me to be finding the positives in each of these trials here.  I'm only 3 weeks from finishing my degree! I can't let something that I have no control over stop me from accomplishing my dreams.