I take new experiences as they come. I'm that person that packs for vacation the night before. But I allow myself lists before the ultimate packing.
In saying this, I am preparing myself for student teaching by making lists in a sense. I've reading the novel I will be teaching, I have taken all the college courses that supposedly prepare me for the classroom, but all-in-all, it comes down to packing the night before. I still don't know what it's like to be a teacher, much like you never really know what you should pack for vacation until you get there.
I keep an open mind. I don't fill my head with "what-if" statements, but instead I gather as much information as I can to be informed and go into the situation as myself. I don't have preconceived notions or expectations for student teaching.
What I'm trying to say is that I don't want to think about what might be the easiest part or what might be the hardest part because I really don't know. And I won't know until I am in that classroom.
1 comment:
I completely agree with this...It's like no matter how many classes we take, we will never really know what it's like until we get up there and have our OWN classroom. I know these classes/previous field experiences have been and will continue to be extremely useful, but the fact is that these students already have their own teacher and we are only temporary. I'm not saying that they won't respect us like teachers, but we have to require that from them...it's not something that's just going to happen. And I think that this will be the biggest learning experience of our college careers. If we can teach them half as much as we learn ourselves, we'll be in good shape. :0)
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