Don't Give Up - Never Give Up.

So today was the first day IN THE CLASS for the Practicum. I met my placement teacher and found out what? That his internship has motivated him to give up teaching. So sad. He said he wanted to be a teacher to teach "ideas" and found himself only teaching things like Prefixes/Suffixes and Text Features (like bolded words and italics and bullet points, etc.). It made me sad... and a little scared for the experiences to come.

But guess what? In our prefix/suffix lesson, two students came up with some awesome words as examples!

UNFATHOMABLE (attention to the prefix UN- and suffix -ABLE)

PREDETONATION (PRE- and -TION)

What 7th graders use these words? Ones we can teach IDEAS to.

It gave me hope.

No giving up, guys. No giving up.

teaching

Can I just tell you all that teaching is....tiring. You think you know what tired is, then you go to school and hang out with a bunch of high-energy fire-bombs, aka students, and you REALLY KNOW what tired is. Oish.
Also- Does anyone know anything about the Masters program-the creative writing one? Im thinking about it....
-syd

Day 1

well fellow teachers and teacher's pets, it has begun!
 Day 1 of student teaching was pretty uneventful- lots of watching and learning and organizing (thank heavens)
I need to hear about school! and what's going on and who's teaching what and and and and
guys my husband (bahaha) just sent me this link...... you might die. This has nothing to do with teaching