I stink at blogging. It is quite pathetic. I do have a good excuse though- 24 ten-year-olds. I just got a new one this week! I am up to:
Boys: 14
Girls: 10
Being a teacher is CrAzY!!! Especially being an intern! For those of you that don't know I completely skipped my student teaching. I only spent 1 month in second grade and 1 month in fourth grade watching and sometimes teaching. Now I am the real deal, 5th grade teacher.
There is SOOO much that goes into it. I know the stereotypical norm of a teacher is if you passed the Fifth Grade, you can teach the Fifth Grade and what I have to say to those people is- I'd like to see you try! Not only do you have to teach, you have to figure out what you are going to teach, when you are going to teach it, how you are going to teach it, how you are going to meet individual childrens' needs, how the students are going to stay engaged, the method you are going to teach and will that method work with these individual children, how you manage the class, how you manage the students with particular behavior problems, how you manage the children with learning disabilities, and that is just planning. On top of that you need to squeeze in all of the info you need to teach in a short amount of time. Then there is still organization, routines, grading, grading, grading, meetings- all the while trying to figure out how you can do it better.
I think the hardest thing about teaching is that it is all in my hands. It is all up to me if my day, lesson, moment is successful. There are so many ups and downs, trials and errors, reflecting and changes, but those good moments are completely worth it! Like when one of my boys struggling in math asks for extra help, or my boy who reads on a Kindergarten level sounded out Antarctic all by himself today! Or when one of my boys that struggles with focusing wrote a whole paragraph in 15 minutes (trust me the last paragraph took 3 hours). Or when one of my girls who just does not get math, unlike anyone I have ever taught before, aced her math test. Or when one of my boys who is in resource most of the day wrote an amazing personal narrative. Or when one of my boys who struggles with getting really frustrated, had a stressful situation and handled it perfectly! This all happened yesterday! It's important to celebrate the little things because the hard things come!
p.s. I know no one will read this. I NEVER read people's long blog posts, especially without pictures!
p.p.s. my favorite subject to teach is probably science! I am teaching genetics. It is so fun!
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Haha, I feel like yiu just summed up exacty what it is like to be an intern. Congratulations on all your successes!
ReplyDeleteI hate it when people say teaching is easy because you get the summer off! You summed it up perfectly!! It's is a full time job plus another 40 hours of prep work! You go girl!
ReplyDeleteI read all of that btw and it sounds like you are an awesome teacher. I hope my kids get teachers who genuinely care about their success like you do.
ReplyDeleteI think you sound like a great teacher too! You are going a great job! Keep up the hard work!
ReplyDeleteI read it too! You sound like you are doing a great job, Nikki. And I bet the first year or two are the hardest. Way to go!
ReplyDeleteI read it :) Isn't teaching the best?!
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome, Nikki! I can't even imagine how hard it must be as an intern. Just student teaching is about pushing me over the edge! ;) Those little successes are so much fun to see, aren't they?
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