http://emstrazz.edublogs.org Reflections on the Transition from Student to Teacher Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:48:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This split assignment thing is risky. It would be great if the first placement sucked and you couldn't wait to get out of it... But having an AMAZING experience for the first half and then having to leave that... I just can't get used to secondary. The long days are ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/11/04/split-assignments/ I'm almost done with my first full week at the high school. I'm getting more comfortable, I think... I'm coming out of my shell a little bit. Especially at the middle school. I had an epiphany yesterday and realized that the age of middle schoolers is fairly universal. Allow me ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/10/29/warming-up/ I'm having a hard time getting used to this switch. I had a good day of teaching today, but there's so much DRAMA at the secondary level right now. The band director said that the negative moods that all of the music faculty have right now usually don't get to ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/10/28/mini-est-update-ever/ I miss my little kids... My last day of school last week was so sad! I got to school and put some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies in the teacher's lounge with a thank you to the faculty and staff and I saw a cake in there that said, "Best Wishes Emily." ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/10/20/change-of-pace/ I'm feeling kind of weird about this last week at the elementary school. I came home today with nothing but my binder in my bag... No teacher's editions textbooks or CDs... I feel like I'm just doing fluffy stuff with the kids this week. It's probably because we're doing Halloween ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/10/13/checking-out/ I realized today that I probably need to work some more on the noise level in my classes. I kept waking up last night with a burning sore throat, and therefore I couldn't raise my voice above my normal talking voice today. I keep telling people, "It was a rough ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/10/06/sick-again/ Why haven't I written in a week? Because almost every day this week, I stayed at school until 6:00, came home and wanted to do nothing for about an hour, and then worked on lesson plans until I went to bed past my bedtime. Good Lord, how exhausting. Today, I ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/10/03/2-weeks-left/ I think I finally understand fully the meaning of that acronym. It was my first full week of school, and goodness gracious, I feel it. I can only imagine how I'll feel next week after my first full week of teaching EVERYTHING. Yesterday I had a pretty big fail with my ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/tgif/ By Friday, I have to turn in a draft of three sections of my portfolio for seminar and write 12 lesson plans. Therefore, this will be a very short blog post with a lot of sentence fragments. Yesterday: 1 kindergarten class and 3 5th grade classes. Kindergarten class was boring. Boring ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/09/23/overwhelmed/ I missed a day of blogging last week. Woops. Oh well... We'll pretend that day never happened. (Except for the fact that it was a good step forward.) I only had two classes today. Two kindergarten classes. I find those to be easiest because it's all super simple stuff and starting ... http://emstrazz.edublogs.org/2009/09/21/week-4/