I cannot believe I've been student teaching for 4 weeks already and am about to begin week number 5. It's been a pretty amazing month thus far. I was originally in a primary self-contained classroom with eight students, seven with autism and one with downs syndrome. It was my ideal placement minus the grade level since I really want to work with middle or high school. After about 2 minutes in the classroom I fell in love with each student and realized that teaching kids with special needs is definitely my calling. I'm so excited to teach special ed! Plus, now after spending 4 weeks in the primary classroom I am definitely more open and excited about the opportunity to work with elementary aged kids. :)
On Thursday I was switched into a different classroom, now I'm with 6th, 7th and 8th grade in a cross-categorical room., so it's a completely different experience! I feel like I'm at a bit of a loss with only 6 weeks left and 4 of those weeks supposed to be me teaching the class on my own...plus the papers I have to write for my seminar but I am thankful for the switch. Very thankful...I can go into more details once this experience is done and I have landed my first teaching job but for now I'll leave it at that. What I just blogged about and how tired I have been...with this new switch, I'm hopeful that I won't be nearly as emotionally drained at the end of each day. I'm very excited for the next 6 weeks to see how much more I can learn through this experience! :)
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